#and i hope u like my photos ;-; i'm always so...... iffy about showing them i get so nervous just posting to my instagram asfkondkc
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HI GUYS oh gosh iāve ALMOST!!!!! finished my final assignmentĀ šŖ i wanna share it with you guys so iāll do it under a read more dsofnefvdcn iām really hoping that this does well the past month iāve been working my ass off to get it done... but hiii iāll be back normal-ish by next week maybe? and with this last assignment means iāve finished university... frick... i do have a bunch of exhibition stuff to do in june though but iāll be kinda here wdjfnefkjn ANYWAY!!! I MISSED U ALL I HOPE I CAN TALK TO YOU GUYS MORE :(((
if ur interested in wtf iāve been doing dwjvnijef u can check it out in the read more if not hi iāll be back to annoy u all sooooooon (also btw warningĀ itās SUPER LONG HHHHH CRAP)
OKAY......... LETāS GET TO IT...................... hhhh where do i start askfndfksncl okay this is myĀ āmajor projectā i was set it in february but only ~properly started to work on it the last month or so bc i was doing an EXTENDED dissertation which meant i was doing 10,000 words instead of 6000... which i did so well on iām so happy iām a lil annoyed i was 2 marks off a first but anyway!!!! ONTO THIS...
at the end we have a exhibition at university, AND weāre going to a huge graduate exhibition in london which iām so nervous about thereās gonna be tonnes of people seeing my work and being all pretentious and judging me am i gonna cry? probably yes.
iāll try and explain as best i can... iāve drawn a lot of inspiration from various sources to explain the idea itās kinda???? mad adjsfkjfc or as my lecturer saidĀ āitās either mad or ingeniousā which. if iām honest. is true dsoivnendc
okay... i had this idea originally about how the landscape is written about in literature and conveyed in words vs. what is actually seen by our own eyes? and talking about that sort of relationship between storytelling/the written word and visual language/the art of seeing??? and looking at it through myths and legends!!! bc iām a slut for mythology :/
then the idea progressed and i was looking at the landscape in terms of mythical creatures, like looking at it as if i was david attenborough if he was talking about a dragonās lair wdofnefndklx... so it became that BUT
as i was researching and having tutorials it occurred to me about theĀ āfour classical elementsā yes weāre talking avatar the last airbender kinda inspo here ladies!!!! and sort of? breaking the landscape down to those components, as well as relating those elements to the mythical creatures (because some mythical creatures are associated with particular elements!!!!)Ā
SO.... HERE COMES SOME MADNESS........ i was looking up archetypal imagery and symbols and characters (and in relation to psychology and literature - check out comparative mythology and jungās archetypes itās rly interesting!!!! fuck freud and his theories tho) - and one thing that jumped out at me was the concept of the world tree/the tree of life (which is also a biological term adapted by charles darwin and his theory of evolution) and how it links the heavens to earth and the netherworld... well. in my interpretation, iāve created a sort of family tree/phylogenetic tree... which has the tree of life at the top, the second row is the four classical elements, the third row being landscapes that also represent those elements and describing them as habitats for specific mythical creatures which can be found being depicted across multiple cultures and religions - such as dragons, fairies, and mermaids!!!!
itās also influenced by ideas in science, history, spirituality, psychology, philosophy (and of course photography bc thatās what i study LMAO)... for example the theory of everything plays a part - like these notions that everything in the universe is connected - which is also a similar concept of qi, in chinese tradition which is theĀ ālife forceā orĀ āenergyā that everything in existence possesses? -Ā like in a way iām finding all these similar concepts in various cultures and religions, and finding patterns and exploring the various meanings and interpretations... looking at how we all experience these similar things - even though there are some differences? and how our own knowledge/culture/various other factors influence our ways of thinking and how we interpret things??? sdofnjfic idk if this makes much sense... itās a rly intense and massive undertaking of so much research that rly iāve BARELY touched on bc iāve only had like 3/4 months to undertake it alongside having my depressive episodes etc and my dissertation... anyway!!!!!!!
itās pretty much just me going - oh hey. i fucking love learning about different cultures and things like that. i would like to read and research and i love finding patterns in things and utilising photography as a way of explaining things that i cannot explain in words. please enjoy how my brain thinks. it basically never shuts up!!!!! asodfnfjdsk yeah... honestly iāve even thought about how it could develop further like... looking at specific biospheres/habitats/subcategories of those things... i rly like categorising things wdofnoejrdfkl but not like... in a traditional sense i guess? hmm OMG THE BEST ANALOGY I CAN THINK OF IS THINK OF IT LIKE HOW POKEMON ARE CATEGORISED??? LIKE BY TYPE/MOVES/BODY TYPE/HEIGHT/WEIGHT/ETC. like iāve looked at various modern media for inspo too like how ancient mythology is depicted in modern media and how its adapted etc.Ā
ANYWAY LEMME SO U THE PICS!!!!! i made them so they kinda look like examples in a scientific text? i guess? dsokfndw;lwsm anyway i hope this wasnāt too much for yāall to read gosh i need to learn to shut up
#WOKFNEJCKL THIS IS SO FUCKIN LONG.............. I'M SO SORRY I GET SO CARRIED AWAY#i will send u virtual hugs if u actually read all the stuff under the cut and 1000000% understand if u don't or just skip it sodfjfwd#but yeah!!!! i'm almost done i have a few more pages of sketchbook work and stuff#i'm so so glad it's almost done eeeeek#also i'm so anxious and nervous wfkjlec god#i miss being here ngl i feel like i've missed a lot :/// i check in when i procrastinate but not for long#i hope ur all well and doing ookay!!!!!!#i miss u guys i hope we can chat more maybe if u wanna sonjdiwlsk idk i'm lame#and i hope u like my photos ;-; i'm always so...... iffy about showing them i get so nervous just posting to my instagram asfkondkc#anyways enjoy!!!! ily all#personal
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