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This was the beginning of the work. All started here. After much research and thought about the subject, one of the nights I watched an episode of Black Mirror where each person’s life were spheres locked up in a room and as each person died the sphere would be locked away and lit up. I took that in as a representation of us, humans. Our souls and memories all locked up forever in a box. I decided to play with shapes and colours to represent something. Taking the spheres as the shape, I decided on the colour pink, red and white as I really like those hues – they pass to me a sense of harmony, purity and stain.
From the top left hand side the colour starts from light (white) slightly stained with the red formed a very weak pink – much as the purity of when we are born. As years go by, our lives become more stained; we experience things, learn with them, hurt with them. As you reach the bottom right hand side of the painting, it comes to a much darker almost pure red with scattered pink (lighter shades of red) through. Growing older myself, I’ve come to notice that, at same stages of life (years), what I have lived already is not necessarily what another adult of the same age would have lived. People do have different views, experiences, thoughts and emotions to me. I even think that if I lived with my sister all my life without any difference in circumstances, we’d still feel different ways about the same things. The scattered red dots throughout the painting are stains of dear people or things we’ve lost throughout the years. I do like the fact that this piece has so much meaning behind it and I’m certain that different people would perhaps experience a different relationship with it. Technically speaking, however, I do think my brush strokes could have been more precise. Definitely the use of a better brush would have helped or perhaps another material? One of a circular shape already. Maybe a stamp! Not sure… I enjoyed the process of moving my hand round though, and the satisfaction it brought when I managed to get a perfect circle.
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