My Newest work

In my recent work I have been looking into the ‘Sublime’ quality of music and I tried to show this sublime quality by painting a representation of that feeling. Although my prints seemed to work, I was not fully satisfied with my results. I feel that my prints were to pretty and nice, that they may correspond with a universal ‘sublime’ feeling but didn’t express how something ‘sublime’ doesn’t have to appeal from something that everybody gets the feeling from. I wanted to show how something that appears as imperfect and distorted such as a piece of Lo-Fi music can give a sublime feeling. For my end results of this work I want to represent a ‘sublime’ experience that I’ve had whilst listening to music. I believe that something that is less immediate can ultimately be more rewarding and this is a message which I’d like my paintings to inform the viewer.
I have been looking into reasons why different people like different types of music, and I have been thinking about this whilst thinking about my new work. With my next picture as I am thinking about representing music that I like, maybe it will reveal something about why I like the music that I do. Maybe I didn’t like my previous works as they were too universal and I like to be different to everyone else which may relate to how I came to like alternative music. I am not sure what I want to do with future work yet, I may try to somehow look at different ways in which people like music and try to represent them somehow.
This picture shown here is a small painting in my sketchbook that I did after using a stained glass effect onto a photo of my previous work from the degree show. I am not satisfied with my results and feel I need to experiment a little more with my image and materials before I make a larger piece.

CURRENT LISTENING:

Black Mountain - Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar)

Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)