This blog is dead. Everyone please emerge from your graves and give feedback. I am stuck in a rut, what with working for Blanche, my birthday and 3 assignments due on Tuesday. Sucks to be me. Anyway, I'm scrapping out that Balochi women in suits with coffee or Nestle on their heads...its coming off as very tacky in my head and I don't know how to make proper bodies. My initial idea was to so a study of their objects specifically the "Matka" and perhaps sightings of the village and their women. I want to steer clear of contemporary Urban life and go back in time...even though that is what Balochistan (the village we rule) looks like currently. I have 2 canvases, tonnes of paint and a severe Artists block. A few pictures to depict the life and women there:
My 2nd idea was to have huge blow ups of African Masks and objects. I would have 4 large canvases...similar to Chuck Close's tapestries but I am aiming for a golden hue rather that bronze. I already have my previous work focusing on African Art and am interested in taking that further. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
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You could work with patterns and objects? I know that in some cultres certain patterns/colours have meanings...or you could incorprate architecutre as well. You could team these together to make still-lives reflecting cultures. I know it may sound boring :P but perhaps it may help you generate some ideas nonetheless!
If you have a subject you'd like to explore, and a topic you'd like to explore, why not combine them?
Perhaps you could re-envision the African masks in a way to reflect on the Balochistan lifestyle? Or vice versa, perhaps, in depicting Balochistan lifestyle through African artistic methods?
This is just the first thing that comes to mind.
Personally, I always find viewing work from other cultures refreshing; in their styles, imagery, etc. Work I suppose untainted by american and european cultures or thought. Mariam, you have that potential and advantage, so I suggest you to make a series of work involving your own culture, identity, etc. I'd only use the African masks idea if you had a really good understanding of the history and process of making them.
I like Jenna's idea of patterns, that might work. Personally, I really enjoyed your piece last year in that small room. Where you wrote in english and arabic. That's what I refer to as refreshing, strangeness even. I'd like to see something like that again. There was a combination of cultures there.
I think it's time to see a present day Paul Gauguin
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