Transformation
By ANA LESHEN
Materials
I am researching materials. Now I have been enjoying working with ink pastels, pastel crayons and acrylics. I am using different papers such as watercolor paper and medium texture canvas paper.
Context
I have been always intrigued by homeless people, addicts and humans that destroy themselves.
It’s amazing to see how people can transform into a different creature.
Are we animals after all? At the end can our instincts and impulses take over us and make us animals with no freedom of choice; Slaves of our own desires.
We are all born the same way what makes the difference of one person becoming a “successful person “ and another a “scum of society”.
What amazes me more is how after being “dehumanized “how we can restore, recover and become, functional human beings again.
The power of human beings to change. I call it the fire that burns you and the fire that warms illuminates.
Definitions of transformation
Transformation occurs naturally in some species of bacteria, but it can also be effected by artificial means in other cells.
(1) : the operation of changing (as by rotation or mapping) one configuration or expression into another in accordance with a mathematical rule; especially : a change of variables or coordinates in which a function of new variables or coordinates is substituted for each original variable or coordinate (2) : the formula that effects a transformation
alter
to make different without changing into something else
Inspirations in Context
Martine Rhyner
Real People
Your inspirations show someone who loves form defined, clearly by a pencil and "shaped" then Color patches!
ReplyDelete1. I would suggest you work on ways to combine FORM with COLOR as the people you love have done! Pencil would be the MAIN FORM defining tool and then Many different ways to bring color into that equation (brush, paint, pastel, ink, etc..)
2. Consider even doing some collage, or paint/draw on top of photos!
3. ***But you need to draw some images/gestures of what you are thinking about doing as a whole- what does the WHOLE project look like. Especially the part where you talk about SHOWING - "alter!"
Be well Tom
And...I looked up transform as well: an earlier definition is: a marked change, as in appearance of character, usually for the better.
ReplyDeleteAlso a synonym: Convert: to change something into another form.
In the case of CONVERT something is ACTIVELY changed! Where as with Transformation- something just changes!
I would also look at Ovid's Metamorphosis- where things change into new forms.
Be well Tom