These are My Twisted Words

A glimpse into my thoughts, my imagination, my inspirations.

"A journal for chronicling my immeasurably fascinating dysfunctions, neuroses, emotions, inner children, moments of shame and doubt, projection, self-loathing, misanthropy, and completely normal insanity, because the only difference between me and the rest of the population is that I acknowledge how crazy I am and they're all in mindnumbing denial".

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Omg this is so exciting! Im excited for the next batch!

Omg this
is so exciting! Im excited for the next batch!

This is so exciting! Cant wait to do more!

This is so exciting! Cant wait to do more!

this is so awesome! Im excited for more!

this is so awesome! Im excited for more!

Work that I’ve been looking at as visual inspiration for my SI. This work is by an artist called Elena Rendina. Her work examines identity, focusing on that of her little sister. She plays with ideas and signs associated with the theatre such as drapes, consumes, and lighting. 

See her website here. 

You may, right now, be nursing a broken heart. Friends will say “Aren’t you glad you had the experience anyway?” and you may say “No”. Eventually, unbelievably, you may not even remember the boy or the girl that triggered it all. You’ll recall all the places you visited, but not how you got there. You’ll remember the songs that you listened to.

—

Emma Forrest

Los Angeles, 21st September 2011

» Booklet of Ceremonials - Florence + The Machine (2011)

(Source: monalisa-overdrive)

I’ve been looking at the work of Christo and Jean-Claude and the way they wrap landscape with material, changing it completely. 

Their work is a lot bigger than I could ever realistically afford but they are incredibly inspirational and really make me want to push the boundaries of this project. 

I’ve been looking at some of the work I shot recently and am starting to consider the idea of using wallpaper in the images - laying it across landscapes, wrapping in it trees etc.

Also, maybe my project could be about bringing the indoors outdoors in a performative kind of way: rubber gloves hanging from trees (thank you Kasia!) <3

Need to find an angle and dedicate myself to it, then shoot shoot shoot.

Thomas Jackson’s project Swarm resonates a lot with me, and really reminds me of what I’m currently testing: performance in empty and isolated spaces. He also breaks the boundaries of what I have tested before which is currently exclusive to the idea of the theatre curtain. An interesting find. 

Some sketches of things I hope to shoot this weekend. The crit went very, very well yesterday! I can finally articulate what my latest possibility is.