Exploration of New Ideas: What I’ve Made

I hated the masks I was working on:

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I met with Lee and we talked about why I hated what I was working on, and why I was bored. I think overall I jumped at the chance to make one of my first Ideas, and it was not fully informed.

So I started thinking about other ways to visually bombard viewers. Here are some optical prints I made: If you enlarge the blue one and stare at it long enough it actually does move! These were both inspired by my investigations of Bridget Riley’s work in Optical Art.

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This got me really excited about prints and print mixing. I thought optical illusions and overbearing prints could cause the sensation I was looking for.

I continued making some prints inspired by artists and designers I was researching. Here is a piece inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s Phallic Chairs. It is not a perfect repeat pattern like the former ones, but I really enjoyed making it as well. While I was watching a biographical movie on Kusama, I started subconsciously doodling motifs.

I’m not sure how this will all fit together, but I’ve planned a trip to the Tate Modern to look at other artists and hopefully get some more inspiration.