Finding ways to craft 'thoughts'...
Friedrich Nietzsche "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -always darker, emptier and simpler."
When considering how I can make art which represents the mind I found myself preoccupied with trying to imagine what a thought might look like.
After using a glue gun I began experimenting with making forms and patterns with the glue by pulling the glue away to make long strings and curled forms. I felt that to me these seemed to represent my imagining of how a thought may look when passing through the mind. The medium of the glue also maintained the semi transparent aesthetic which I aim to keep with most of my works.
I also liked this as a process as it is fairly uncontrollable and I could not recreate exactly the same pattern twice. Using Freud's theory of the mind, we are not in control of our unconscious mind therefore I wanted to use a process which took the control away from me as the artist and represent the random occurrences in the mind.
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