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Creative visual representation for the fourth stage of sleep...

Trialling some editing styles...

Nightmares photoshoot... The Fourth stage of sleep is the stage where your brain is most active... It is strange, because your brain is more active but your body becomes paralysed. Are our we controlling our minds, or do they have control over us?!

The first and last time anyone can be sure they felt a pure desire, on a ‘neutral ground’ was at the moment of birth, when their most important primal instinct was to be comforted by their mother. Therefore, any experiences thereafter have since influenced their identity and in turn what they want or think they want. No matter how much we think we know who we are, we only know what we have experienced. Our desires are directly influenced by external influences. They ooze throughout what we think we need and want. There can be no neutral ground in relation to desire after the initial point at which we are born.

No matter how much we think we know who we are, we only know what we have experienced. Our desires are directly influenced by external influences. They ooze throughout what we think we need and want.

Taking these pure forms, I intended to corrupt them with 'external influence'. I slowly poured coloured water into the holes at the top of the boxes, after only a few seconds the water started to ooze out of the bottom of the boxes, changing the colour and form of them.

I used white cotton to tie the boxes to form a mobile like contraption. The reference of the mobile to childhood, adds to the idea of purity and innocence of these forms.

Still working with the idea of a 'neutral ground', I thought about ways of showing a basic individual desire. These origami boxes represent pure desires, free from influence. They hold what we want the most. A delicate yet ordinary object.

While thinking about how to find the neutral ground in relation to desire, I have constructed a 3D model of what I would image could be a physical representation of a ‘neutral ground’. The inner walls of this box represents a space which is free from outside influence… Upon ones entrance into the white walled box, the individual must make what they will from it, not being exposed to outside forces, they will question their own thoughts and identities. But is it possible to completely detach from external influence?

Therefore, my question is, is there a neutral ground in the search for desire, do we actually know who we are...  

In brief, this article explains how things we desire seem to be in closer reach than they actually are. When you desire something, you are so heavily motivated to achieve that goal as fast as possible that you misinterpret the actual process and time that is need to fulfil it. Desire can be seen as an all consuming force that takes over our bodies and fragments our minds, we become deluded into thinking that we are closure to our desired goals than we actually are, forcing us to act in irrational ways and being blinded by what we think is in obtainable reach.

A Fork in the Road is a metaphor for making a decision or choice. When I think about desire, I think about the journey that an individual takes to try an achieve or obtain that desire. There comes a point where you are face to face with your desire, the moment where the impossible is becoming possible, and there is a split second where you stop and question your intentions, you can reach your object of desire, but do you really want what you thought you desired? In the final leg of all journeys towards desire, we first face a fork in the road, what do we really desire?

Reverse Psychology states that when one is told to do one thing, they immediately take to doing the exact opposite. This is called reactance, when one has a desire to restore the threatened freedom of action. I believe this idea is relevant in terms of an individuals journey towards an object of desire. It is said that once we achieve what we desire, we no longer desire it, instead our object of desire changes. Using research from reverse psychology, when we are presented with a task, as humans, we generally want to do the opposite, mainly because we don't like to be told what to do, so, what if, what we want isn't what we desire, rather what others have told us we can't have?

Barbara Kruger is a conceptual artist that uses black and white photographs and bold text to address social constructions of power, identity and sexuality. I am looking at ways I can portray a complex idea only using minimal text, I've drawn inspiration from the effectiveness of Kruger’s use of small amounts of text to be able to question the viewer. For the use of advertising or promotional posters, minimal, non-distracting images and few bold words are most effective, Kruger’s artworks use this technique to effectively question her audience.