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mochi-peaches Ā· 6 years ago
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HI GUYS oh gosh iā€™ve ALMOST!!!!! finished my final assignmentĀ šŸ˜Ŗ i wanna share it with you guys so iā€™ll do it under a read more dsofnefvdcn iā€™m really hoping that this does well the past month iā€™ve been working my ass off to get it done... but hiii iā€™ll be back normal-ish by next week maybe? and with this last assignment means iā€™ve finished university... frick... i do have a bunch of exhibition stuff to do in june though but iā€™ll be kinda here wdjfnefkjn ANYWAY!!! I MISSED U ALL I HOPE I CAN TALK TO YOU GUYS MORE :(((
if ur interested in wtf iā€™ve been doing dwjvnijef u can check it out in the read more if not hi iā€™ll be back to annoy u all sooooooon (also btw warningĀ  itā€™s SUPER LONG HHHHH CRAP)
OKAY......... LETā€™S GET TO IT...................... hhhh where do i start askfndfksncl okay this is myĀ ā€˜major 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 iā€™m so happy iā€™m a lil annoyed i was 2 marks off a first but anyway!!!! ONTO THIS...
at the end we have a exhibition at university, AND weā€™re going to a huge graduate exhibition in london which iā€™m so nervous about thereā€™s gonna be tonnes of people seeing my work and being all pretentious and judging me am i gonna cry? probably yes.
iā€™ll try and explain as best i can... iā€™ve drawn a lot of inspiration from various sources to explain the idea itā€™s kinda???? mad adjsfkjfc or as my lecturer saidĀ ā€œitā€™s either mad or ingeniousā€ which. if iā€™m 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 iā€™m 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 dragonā€™s lair wdofnefndklx... so it became that BUT
as i was researching and having tutorials it occurred to me about theĀ ā€˜four classical elementsā€™ yes weā€™re 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 jungā€™s archetypes itā€™s 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, iā€™ve 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!!!!
itā€™s also influenced by ideas in science, history, spirituality, psychology, philosophy (and of course photography bc thatā€™s 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 ā€œlife forceā€ orĀ ā€œenergyā€ that everything in existence possesses? -Ā  like in a way iā€™m 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... itā€™s a rly intense and massive undertaking of so much research that rly iā€™ve BARELY touched on bc iā€™ve only had like 3/4 months to undertake it alongside having my depressive episodes etc and my dissertation... anyway!!!!!!!
itā€™s 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 iā€™ve 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 iā€™ve 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 wasnā€™t too much for yā€™all to read gosh i need to learn to shut up
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