Drawing SP13

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Sketch of a potential physical implementation of my intent

Final Project - Intent

My final project is concerned with one's sense of self — on the hypothesis that what we perceive as the outer world is in fact only more of us. When one looks at the cat, he sees not the billions of eukaryotic cells building tissues building organs building systems building the cat, it sees not even the cat as a furry mammalian animal, one sees what he thinks of a cat. Does it purr? Then it's happy. Does it have freckles? It's cute. It's a cat. Well, I don't think so. It's what you think of when you see a "cat". See the discrepancy? The only time we actually see things is when these things are totally new to us, eg. babies' eyes. I won't try to cross the barrier and proclaim that what I draw and see is the objective reality (—that'd be tragically kantian, bet he'd be happy.) but instead, accepting what I see is not the reality, I might try to find what makes things I see my ideas of them. Or more correctly, (as there aren't specific parts in things that I see in a certain way that makes them my own, rather they are products of my own psyche in whole) I want to find what I see in them that might best signify to outer world (outer world according to me) my idea of them. Basically, every object in one's sensorium carries a fragment of one's own personality, and I want to find (catch) fragments of my own in mundane objects, and somehow express them without separating them from the object I've found it in. (that'd kill it) And somehow I need to find a way to express this on paper. I restricted myself to pencil, ink ,watercolour and brush, and I'll figure out a way.