Painting 2 assessment 2, Final body of work.
I began my work for the second assessment looking at landscapes of areas in Sydney that evoked a certain feeling. This feeling was at times unease, peacefulness, confusion, loneliness, abandonment or emptiness. Throughout my experimentation themes of surveillance and the way we interact with functional spaces became interesting tangents that I began focussing on.
There are places around Sydney like empty business parks and old construction storage areas spotted throughout suburbia. I’ve grown up often confused as to why these areas exist, and what type of people frequent them.
My final body of work features 3 oil paintings based on google photographed images of such areas in Sydney. I painted on found MDF board sitting in the garage and I decided to incorporate its functional wooden aesthetic into the works rather than try and make the board appear more canvas like. These pieces of board could be found in any of these half used warehouses or scrapyards, lying quietly in a corner, rarely to be interacted with again. I particularly enjoyed the composition of Car Yard, based on the satellite images of a scrapyard in north-west Sydney. What was particularly engaging for me about this piece Is the fact it’s been photographed as part of a formula to photograph earth from above, and without their intent, the organisers of said car yard have made an aesthetically engaging composition out of old cars. So many countless images exist already in the world, and to use existing ones for a purpose far from their practical content was a satisfying and interesting process. Some of the ideas I've touched upon this term have certainly inspired me to continue exploring areas and perspectives of the environment around me.