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Come on, baby, play me like a 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕘 Every time it comes on I get this 𝕤𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕥 𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕣𝕖

Visual Studies Reflection

This collection of visual studies was created using 3 different artists as inspiration. When I first researched artists for my identity topic, I was constantly finding Rosanna Jones and her Skin series. Her artwork is about the effects of Society on people and how it makes them feel. I was inspired by this to create a study on a photograph, by matching paint to the skin on the image. I wanted to create a study that symbolised how it felt to be losing your true identity, and essentially having it ripped away, which is why I dragged the paint.   

The second study was inspired by an artist called Bruce Nauman, whose work I discovered in the Tate. When I first saw the series of photographs consisting of people manipulating their faces, I knew that it would be perfect for my project. The concept behind my idea is that the person is using their hands to create a smile, therefore the expression is fake, however, you wouldn’t know that if the hands were rubbed away leaving a happy smile. This relates to my theme with the concept of dual and multiple identities when it comes to social media, you never really know if that smile is genuine or if it’s being forced. I wanted to use coloured pencil on this study as I wanted it to be bright and colourful in order to fool the person looking at it, that it was a genuine smile. Originally I was going to colour in the whole face but I decided that it was more impactful if there was only one eye as the viewer is instantly drawn towards it.