Bonjour!
I'm busy with my portfolio for the Antwerp Acadamy and i am having some serious doubts with some of the "designs"...( i prefer the term ideas).
I chose to make a workbook, like the students make every year for their collections. My portfolio is about insects, the contrast between the beautiful, fragile wings and webs, sheer, leightweighted materials, cocons, iridiscent colours and the more creepy part, the chitin, the structure of the "shield" (dunno if you call the back of a bug "shield"), the matte, dirty, humid, awkward flexibility -> pill bug.
I love the architectonical skills of nature, so i really enjoy making this portfolio. On the other hand, it is quiet difficult to stay the course without being pushed in a wrong direction.
Creepy insects may sound a bit goth-s/m-strong-linear... but for me it is a sensual quietness, full of subdued beauty.
I got 60 hours to go, and the time running away forces me to stop overthinking everything a thousand times and asking myself if it still feels good and true.
But without rethinking, the being-pushed part feels so dominant. I think thats the big difference for everything.
Being pushed in a direction kind of against your (true) will or being drawn in a direction due to this tiny little subconcious thing in you that feels attracted by a certain material, sound, smell, emotion,...
I'm young, im not yet that strong and not yet that much myself to translate this subconcious attraction in to pictures, ready to show to someone else, without rethinking sometimes and asking myself if i'm still on my course, or if i'm just a train, following the rails.
Just had to share my thoughts and doubts. I think this is one of the places, where someone could understand.
I'm busy with my portfolio for the Antwerp Acadamy and i am having some serious doubts with some of the "designs"...( i prefer the term ideas).
I chose to make a workbook, like the students make every year for their collections. My portfolio is about insects, the contrast between the beautiful, fragile wings and webs, sheer, leightweighted materials, cocons, iridiscent colours and the more creepy part, the chitin, the structure of the "shield" (dunno if you call the back of a bug "shield"), the matte, dirty, humid, awkward flexibility -> pill bug.
I love the architectonical skills of nature, so i really enjoy making this portfolio. On the other hand, it is quiet difficult to stay the course without being pushed in a wrong direction.
Creepy insects may sound a bit goth-s/m-strong-linear... but for me it is a sensual quietness, full of subdued beauty.
I got 60 hours to go, and the time running away forces me to stop overthinking everything a thousand times and asking myself if it still feels good and true.
But without rethinking, the being-pushed part feels so dominant. I think thats the big difference for everything.
Being pushed in a direction kind of against your (true) will or being drawn in a direction due to this tiny little subconcious thing in you that feels attracted by a certain material, sound, smell, emotion,...
I'm young, im not yet that strong and not yet that much myself to translate this subconcious attraction in to pictures, ready to show to someone else, without rethinking sometimes and asking myself if i'm still on my course, or if i'm just a train, following the rails.
Just had to share my thoughts and doubts. I think this is one of the places, where someone could understand.
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