Just a thaught..

Pet shop boy's lyrics.

'Boy it's tough getting on in the world when the sun doesn't shine and a boy needs a girl it's about getting out of a rut, you need luck and your stuck and don't know how' ( i also added this on the end..to get out of this hole!)

I felt that these lyrics really did kindof explain alot of how i feel at the moment and i just felt that i had to use them in my work. I was thinking though, if the lyrics i have used on the pieces ive done ever were to be sold or displayed somewhere would i then have to give royalties to the pet shop boys as they are their lyrics? Or am i just being a bit odd in thinking that? because its not like i was using thier actiual song or trying to pass it off as my own. so would i then have to include it in the discription of what the piece was made from,

eg:

'Wood, Spray paint, Glow in the dark paint, Household gloss paint, Oil pastels, Pet shop boy's Love Est lyrics.'

Answer to a comment by Gary

Gary B- 'If art is about the human condition, your life experiences could of course be at the centre of what it is to be human. However this needs to be tempered with an awareness of others and how they might receive your work. (Audiences and how to communicate to them) So...where is your work going to be sited and what are the important issues?'

I do believe that alot of art is mainly to do with the human condition as humans are emotional, opnionated, and expressive. I have problems with expressing some of my emotions mainly because of issues i have had in my life. I think that my art work is helping me sortof let out some of these issues i am sortof letting the viewer in but only a certain ammount as obviously im not going to broadcast everything in my head to the world because i just dont particulaly want to. I think that when people see my work they will be probably wondering why is it that she is so upset? and i am going to be including things which are surrounding me at the moment things that make me positive aswell as trying to cover the negatives with colour and happy imagary. I am not wanting to offend people, i am wanting them to possibly have that connection with me as they may too have been through similar things. I am using some of the personal letters that i wrote to my councellor in my work so people can see a certain part of me and possibly an explanation of both the work and of my current state of mind. It is quite brave of me to do this as they are things that litrally only myself and my councellor have seen. I dont think that my work would possibly be able to offend people, unless it was the person who viewed it who was part of what inspired me to create it. but in that case i dont really care as they should know already.

Where can i site my work?

Ok this is a tad late but like i said i have been neglecting this a little.

Well my original plan was to have my work situated in a space such as an office or a waiting room for a GP's as my work was intended on brightening up someones day by them seeing this random really bright piece of whatever it was eather in a corner or mounted up on a wall depending on how it would look.

I went to my local GP's and i started thinking.. why is it that whenever your in a waiting room there is ALWAYS a fish tank? and some wierd plant in the corner which you cant really work out weather it is plastic or not. My GP's (Park edge practice, seacroft) is a new building so it is all referbed and like i said has the fish and the wierd plants but they also have strange photo's of around leeds but ones of the corn exchange from a long time ago.

This got me thinking.. WHY?!

Why would people want to see leeds how it was if they are trying to hard to make it look new and modern? surely they would want to put some nice new photo's done by a top photographer of some of the newer buildings in town? or even some of the local area of which the doctors is near? such as Roundhay Park for example? why not have some nice photo's of that?

something cheery instead of something to be honest.. quite mundane and boring.

I think that the foam pieces that i have done would work quite well in there if i just removed those photo's and mounted them up on the wall some how, although people would probably be like what's going on and what on earth are they? People would be alot more intruiged and possibly even annoyed that they are there instead of those photo's.

So i think that in the case of the foam pieces i have made in the studio that is where they could go.

I think that my latest pieces which i have just uploaded are mostly intended for a gallery space although they could even be placed in the hospital but i think that some of them wouldnt really go there very well due to the fact of people not really understanding them. I just think that the positive imagary of the smiley faces and the 'I LOVE MYSELF' piece that ive done would possibly go near a phsycological ward as it would be quite ironic and also possibly even help convince people that yes they do love themselves and that they will be ok.

Work in progress

I have been neglecting my blog a bit lately so ive decided to upload some images of some recent work i have done for studio practice.
They are at the moment in my garage at home as it was a well ventalated area for me to work in.
I shall be bringing them up to uni soon so you will all be able to have a proper look at them soon.
Ive been using spray paints and glues and glitter and glow sticks also song lyrics from 'the pet shop boys' and 'soman' and 'And One' a german band. i also added my own little bits to it.

Ive been using really bright colours and glow in the dark paint to create fun and positive imagary along side the upset i am experiencing in my life at the moment. In my last project i felt that it was easy to try at stear away from my pain and upset but i think this work is more about embracing it and trying to let my hurt out. And in turn trying to make it look phisically quite positive. I have been influenced by mainly grafiti and the club scene of the bright colours and the work is pretty much quite quickly made. I think this works quite well visually as it even looks as if it was just something someone had to get out of their system in order to carry on with their life.

The work that im producing at the moment is work which is slightly less egnoring the fact that im going through quite an emotional period in my life. Im wanting to make people like it immediately by using attractive colours and textures and effects such as glow in the dark paint and glow sticks and i am going to be hopefully purchasing a UV light so i can display my work in a dark space with the light there so people can see the pieces in a different way, both with the glow in the dark paint and also with the coloured paint being more illuminated.

Im wanting to experiment with alternative materials and create things which are quite normal to look at seem quite surreal in their apperance by spraying them with bright colours and creating something comppletely new out of them by adding certain other materials. I shall get more photo's of the glow in the dark paintings up asap. but for now here are a few of the pieces ive been working on.

Ok so things have turned a bit poo again.

Yep once again life has decided to give me a giant kick in the nuts.. shame i dont have any or i would probably be bent over in pain. Where as i am actiually just in a giant sulk of which i need to get out of.

I decided to go art material shopping today and it cost me a friggin bomb! but it will all be worth it in the end. I am going to build myself a little tent in the studio so i can be in solitary confindment and so you can all leave me alone! lol also so i can gas myself with all the spray cans of paint and such.

I am going to be putting a crap load of music on my mp3 player so i can use the music as an emotion feed to how i want the work to come out. I have been looking at the artists shela sujested and they are pretty cool. I also did some crazy ass angry drawing/photo things lastnight which i shall be using as i am extremely annoyed. Which should help towards my emotional state when making my artwork.

I like blogging it kinda makes me feel ever so slightly better about things.. kinda like wining to people without any response really.. well unless someone comments on it but i doubht anyone will coz i dont think anyone could be arsed. lol

I basically think that i am going to base my work on trying to make myself happy again im probably going to fail on that front but hey, no harm in trying.

I feel bad because i dont want to bring my friends down and i hate it when people constantly wine about stuff but whatever ive had a shit time of it so why the hell not?!

And i am trying to get myself back on track.

So here's to my new chapter of life, trust no one never get disapointed.

Joshua Hoffine

Photographer Joshua Hoffine.

From the Artist:I love old Disney cartoons. I like the hyper-realism of animation, and the overblown production values of big Hollywood movies.Horror tells us that our belief in security is delusional, and that the monsters are all around us.

Me: I think these photo's are really well structured and set up especially with the special effex make-up and the lighting although they look as though they have been through some computer editing but without that they wouldnt look the same most likely. They could well be from film stills they are that full of fear and emotion. When looking at these even i found them disturbing even though i knew for a fact they are not real and set up. These images definately play on our insecurities and fears.

Inspiration post no1

Ok so here are a few things i found online which i think are totally amazing and that inspire me.

Damien Hirst's X SUPREME SKATE DECKS.

I have always been a fan of Damien's work and i really love these skate board deck's. I like the colours and how he has used the paint as a texture/pattern and making them totally random and colourful. This is the type of artwork that i like Bright,Colourful,full of fun and interest. I like how he has used these pieces on skate boards rather than on canvas ready for a gallery space.

MASHUPS MADNESS NIHON TOWN BY KEN TAYA

US and Japanese consumer/pop culture converge in an explosion of mashup madness on the festive streets of “Nihon Town,” an illustration by Ken Taya

This is a video i found by an Artist called Lichtfaktor, which is really interesting. I really like the use of light and colours and how he can adapt a space and create a whole new story for that space by using light. I like the video more than the images because they are more alive and they show the movement of the light. I'd quite like to experiment with light like that.


Go to this link to watch the video as this stupid blog thing wont let me post the video on here.
http://vimeo.com/1712769

EUGENIO MERINO'S "FOR THE LOVE OF OLD" DAMIEN HIRST SCULPTURE

Text via supertouchart:

In a sure sign of the state of the modern art world, the single artwork attracting the most attention at ARCO (the Madrid International Contemporary Art Fair) that opened today was not a masterpiece by DAMIEN HIRST, but rather a parody of the UK bad boy artist by EUGENIO MERINO depicting the master financial strategist encased in one of his own white display cubes, shooting himself in the head. Titled “For the Love of Gold” in reference to Hirst’s $100 million diamond encrusted skull “For the Love of God,” the hyper-realistic yet oddly contorted piece incorporates real human hair, glass eyes, and realistic blood pouring from a gaping hole in the cranium and was quickly snapped up on opening day by a Florida collector for $33,500 USD

Even though i am a fan of Damien's work i did find this quite ammusing. Especially how they had put him in a case similar to ones he uses in his previous work from the work he produced for the Freeze exhibition. People knock Damien Hirst for not doing his own work but to be honest if you had the money? wouldnt you just hire someone who knows what their doing to do it? And they have also accused him of stealing idea's.. Dont we all? There is no such thing as original anymore. Everything has been done once before in some shape or form. to create something you have to be inspired. And to be inspired you see what others have done and take your idea's from that. So really i dont understand why people are so ANTI-Damien Hirst. I think his work is interesting and i personally before him had never seen such works like the framaldahyde pieces.

Edgar Mueller's Drawing on the floor!

I think this is amazing! I have seen a few of his pieces before but this is by far the best ive seen.

AQUARIUM PHONE BOX!!

Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino have transformed a regular telephone booth into a functioning aquarium for the Lyon Light Festival in France.

I seem to quite like things to do with light and putting things in water or in boxes. I might see weather i should go a totally different direction and go with what happenes to things once left in water for a while. And their life span in water.

DAZED DKNY SHOOT

Dazed & Confused have collaborated with DKNY to celebrate the New York brand´s 20th birthday. They created a short film and a photo session with styling by Katie Shillingford and photography by Pierre Debusschere.

I LOVE UV!!

Photographer Jeanyves Lemoigne.

I think these are definately one of my favorate pieces ive seen in a very long time. I love the way he has used his 3D sculptures in a pixelated way and left the rest of the surroundings 'normal' I think the poses and the whole set up of his photographs are really interesting as it makes me question are these photo's he has taken and re-created? or has he used found photo's and re-produced them? these are the types of questions which pop into my head when looking at these pieces. None the less i think they are extremely visually interesting.

YUM!!!
DIGITAL SLR CAKE!

The cake was made by Granny Schmidt’s bakery in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

First ever blog

Ok so this is my first entry of many to come as i quite like writing my thaughts and interests down. I am pretty much slow at the moment with the progress of my art but that was due to me having a pretty much melt down and stress out. But i am on a much more positive note now and i am determined to get my arse into gear and dive right back into it.

I have done a few things due to my elective with the printmaking i was quite pleased with that but i cant really show any of that stuff till i get it back. i'd quite like to include some of the prints i used in my project as they were pretty much made from the silly string paintings that i have been doing.

When i get home tonight i shall blog like a crazy person and upload a load of stuff that i have been looking at and what not.

And art that i have found recently which was awesomes =]

ok so ta daaa..my blog is uploaded!