Tag: HomeandDisplacement

I created my second artwork on the backing of an old picture frame. In this painting, you can see a self portrait of myself in the top right corner and in the bottom left, a clown crying. Just off the centre to the left, you can see a drawing a toilet roll. I decided to give myself a cartoon/animalistic angry mouth due to the fact I felt like a savage animal in a cage, unable to leave. I wanted to try recreate that frustration and desperation.

The clown was added to show the sadness and I wanted the clown to also represent a baby crying as when I’m complaining about being stuck inside, I feel similar to a baby having a tantrum.

Since the lockdown in the UK, toilet roll has been one of the most popular items in panic buying. I wanted to show that as I find it quite chaotic at the thought of people being so desperate that they have to buy as many toilet rolls as possible.

I plan on adding to each painting I create throughout the lockdown. I want my paintings to represent my time in lockdown from the start to the end.

At the start of the week, we were given our new briefing for our graded unit. We must choose from a list of topics on what we want our project based on. The topics are : Home and Displacement, War and Conflict, Natural World, Ritual and Commemoration, and Technology and Systems. I do plan to experiment with each topic, however I have decided that the main topic I’ll be focusing on is Home and Displacement.

Currently, the world is going through a pandemic, with a virus. For safety, everyone has been confined to their homes. When given this project I had been in the house for nine days straight. When the I saw the topic Home and Displacement I immediately started doing visual responses.

I personally I’m not a angry person, but of lately have felt frustration build up. At the time of these drawings I felt very angered and frustrated at the thought of not freely being able to leave my house and go anywhere. This was a new feeling for me because I wasn’t angry at anyone or action, just anger and it was the first that I really drew how I felt, so it helped me in over coming that.

I instantly drew a clown. I feel clowns have always been a fascinating being, due to them being always happy and when you see them sad it is uncomfortable, since you expect I more positive vibe from them. I feel connected to a clown at the time as I didn’t know how to respond to the angry I felt at the time.