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<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n At first I thought that I could present these works alongside the tools I painted with (palette knives and colour palette), but it still seemed like an under-developed idea. From this, I started to think about the ways I deal with my emotions when I’m “spiralling down”, which included painting. I thought it would be interesting to collect remnants or objects that will paint a self-portrait of me caught in a “downward spiral”. I then wanted to present these objects as an exploration of my reactions and actions within this particular state. They are almost a form of a surplus, left over from my actions and behaviours during a state of “spiralling down”.<\/p>\n The list I made of objects to collect included:<\/p>\n So I started collecting some of the objects on the list.<\/p>\n I took several pictures of the left side of jaw, and cropped them\u00a0 and accentuated the contrast to make them a little more abstract. I often get jaw tension due to stress.<\/p>\n Jaw image 1.<\/p><\/div>\n Jaw image 2.<\/p><\/div>\n Jaw image 3.<\/p><\/div>\n I also started playing around with my typed up journals, blocking out sections and leaving those that were indicative of upsetting thoughts\/emotions and hence portrayed the spiralling down process. I found when I did this and read the journal again, the truncated sections gave me a sense of urgency that I felt represented a state of emotional “spiralling down” better than the collection of objects together. I then began to see the whole collection of other objects as background noise, that on its own maybe wouldn’t effectively portray what I want it to.<\/p>\n I decided to follow through with the journals, and collected the three journal entries I’ve written since the start of this course. I blocked out the sections that I thought would distract from the raw emotions in the pieces, and the truncated words gave a sense of urgency as you jumped from one negative emotion to the next.<\/p>\n I experimented with different coloured text and blocks, but found that the black text and blocks worked the best and didn’t add any unnecessary distractions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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