2A VOJT Development and Final Proposal Outcome
The theme and subject that I will be formulating in this subject is the foreign detachment and its experience on me. Through this work I will be exploring and documenting the facts of me and the place that I find myself in. The relation is from my point of view to the point of view is distinctively the same and I want that this relation will be clearly exposed to the viewer.
The main points that I would like to expose are those of detachment, and cultural indifference that there is between me and this environment. Although this could be interpreted through clear terms, I would like to approach my work from a different outlook. This outlook will not only expose my relation to the place but it will reveal the way I look within things. The significant outcome of this project will allow me to further understand myself and this place. Although I can never predict if such a thing will still feel the same at the end of this process, I would like to share this dimension and make the viewer understand the numbness that can be found in anything in life.
The stillness of time and the fixed dimension that there is between me and the view is of significant importance that brings out an aesthetical composition that remains through this journey. The disconnection of me and this background is there and will still be there. The sound and loudness documented will share a value that will keep the repetition looping.
The tonal quality that pertains to this ambience is different and new to my spectrum. The grey tonal elements and milky white together with the deep rust green surrounds me all the time. The golden ray and cold touch is another strange context that I feel within such an environment. The red brick wall and light celestial sky stand in contrast with the shadows found in the water pound at the side of the pavement. With every step I take it is like I am intruding in something that I do not belong to. It is as though I am part of it but not really. The physicality is within but the inner self is still attached to what was left behind.
The detachment is not something that I think about all the time but it is there and in facing it and trying to justify it I might learn more about this place. I might look within such matter as a time where I could relate and understand. Sometimes it is hard to understand what you cannot truly comprehend. It is something that I am living in and it is something that the viewer could experience in different level and forms.
In this room I will document the repetition of this feeling. The idea concept of contrast, detachment, culture indifference, identity will share a significant point to build this composition. The initial focus that I will take is the distinction between this culture and that of my homeland. I will justify and bring into life the different architectural and atmospheric autonomy that distinguish those of my homeland. Through my composition I am looking to give the whole space air but at the same time I would like to approach this as from a view that is real and factual.
The initial compositions that I started to construct were quit distinctive and I was looking to interpret my work within a notion of symbolism. The initial work was in fact of creating a reaction and the outcome and process of this. In doing so I created a body of work that delved me within an area that helped me develop and deeply understand this feeling that lies within. The tonal and distinctive features of White vs. Black, is an elemental quality that I can clearly justify to the audience in. It is a contradicting paradox that moves and delves into the way I feel in this situation.
The second portrayal that I undertook was that of finding and sharing the feeling of something that was part and still is but in a way there is still the void. The idea of documenting empty plates and finished meals is something that engages with a parallel notion to what I feel. This direction that I took allowed me to further understand this complex disconnection that I feel through these days. The cold and saturated hues that I employed shared an interesting notion that might have made me think within an area that I could explore in the future.
After drifting and changing and trying to justify the areas, I took my ideal into a place that I share most of the time in. The window the chair the room is what I live in. This place is foreign and I have to feel comfortable in. Foreign bed, foreign chair, foreign view, everything is distinctively belonging to everything but not to me. Light and the window itself is one of the portrayals that I have to face every day if I want to or not. It is a view that I feel scared yet engage to hope for. It is thus one of the most essential parts of my compositions. This portrayal is there and I need to find the proper way of composing it, into a reality that is my own.
The point of view of this window was thus one of the difficult elements to distinctively conceptualize as it had to be formulated in a manner that justified my point, my relation the disconnection of me and the outer environment. The geometric and linearity of this feeling had to be clearly distributed in the composition that I wanted to express.
After drifting and changing and trying to justify the areas, I took my ideal into a place that is all of the time surrounding me. The window the chair the room is what I live in. This place is foreign and I have to feel comfortable in. Foreign bed, foreign chair, foreign view, everything is distinctively belonging to everything but not to me. Light and the window itself is one of the portrayals that I have to face every day if I want to or not. It is a view that I feel scared yet engage to hope for. It is thus one of the most essential parts of my compositions. This portrayal is there and I need to find the proper way of composing it, into a reality that is my own.
The point of view of this window was thus one of the difficult elements to distinctively conceptualize as it had to be formulated in a manner that justified my point, my relation the disconnection of me and the outer environment. The geometric and linearity of this feeling had to be clearly distributed in the composition that I wanted to express.
In the final image that I was able to construct I valued the different counter points that brought out this outcome. The geometric and regular aesthetic has been evaluated and considered in great depth. The idea of me facing the situation sheds an important aspect for my work to be viewed from. It is a portrayal that I want to share and make the viewer acknowledge this relation. The depth and idea concept of something changing yet being static has to be the main aspect of such a narrative. By developing and constructing an outline of a consecutive day to day shoots, I will be able to compose a work that will signify the whole aspect idea into one narrative. The dominance of such an overwhelming feeling will be put forth in order to acknowledge its purpose to me.
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