Windnie Pan

I'm posting pretty early because i'll be spending the weekend in Venice.

Since studio on Tuesday I've been trying to figure out my plan of action for this project. After a lot of mindmapping and list-making I was able to connect the intertwining form found in my images to the idea of the self. There are two things I noticed about my images. First, that they are very convoluted and made up of various parts that wrap around eachother to form a single thing. I related that to the idea that my identity is made up of numerous different aspects: my heritage, my family, my friends, my experiences,etc. Second, that my images evoke a sense of security/warmth/embrace in the way that the objects are tightly knotted together or tangled up. I related that to the idea that my identity is something that will always be with me no matter what and is also a source of comfort and security.

From there I finally came up with my first idea for this project. My plan is to gather rope/string/fabric that represent different aspects of who I am and physically knot them together in the same kind of form that appears in my images. After that I plan to do a detailed drawing of the knotted object (zoomed in) in a way that represents the security that I feek or seek out in the idea of my self. After that I was thinking of creating a Klimt-like drawing in which figures are intertwined in much of the same way as rope or string would be to represent the feeling of warmth I found in my images. This would also tie in the one figural image I have in my set of 5. So far, I've spent time in fabric stores collecting different types of rope and have begun playing with them. I've done a lot of tying and untying and am not quite sure how I'm going to get this to work. Images of the final product will be posted next week.