Mental

Austere adj. 1. Markedly simple without adornment or ornamentation. “An austere office;” “An austere writing style.” 2. Strict or stern in appearance or manner. “He was an austere movie critic.”

I guess sometimes I can be too austere.

My project is coming to its conclusion and finally I feel I'm coming to a resolution. I've spoken with Jonny and Pete these past few weeks and have been discussing my ideas and images, I'm very happy with them and feel they've really progressed visually more so than in terms of what they say, design wise I'm very content with but I'm not sure if I was putting a strong enough message across and was worried about this. Pete said for me to be considering how I'm telling something, I'm telling a story and I thought about how I could do that in a subjective sense and stray away from an objective sense because of the nature of my abstract drawings, subjectivity is much more successful for me and the issues of the body were not translating. I discussed the idea of dementia and forgetting and this sparked ideas for further work. I felt something was brewing.

An example of the place my work was at.

I was also speaking to Jonny and we again had a conversation about mental health issues and how this alternative perception of reality could chime with the work I was creating. It was during this talk I realized that at the very beginning of the project ( possibly before) ,I bought a book by professor Oliver Sacks called the man who mistook his wife for a hat,  which is a series of psychological studies on patients; delusions and breaks from reality. It was interesting that my whole visual and mental journey this project, had come round to one complete circle, starting where I finished. I decided to venture down this avenue of case studies from the book.