Throughout ever cycle, every portfolio I have ever created I've always tried to show darker themes through a brighter lens. I am attracted to these mysteries of the world and why humans create chaos and are drawn to it as I am.
My argument has always been that darkness is necessary in order to appreciate the light... However that theme becomes a little ignorant after a global pandemic.
This year I have devoted my art practice to the theme of human suffering, this may be from my own life of caused by the pandemic. However, the last thing I wanted to do this year was to create an image of horror and gore, as that is not needed. I simply want to record what I have seen this year and what I personally have experienced in my life.
Alternatively though, my dissertation is about the suffering of Germany during the first world war. It's not exactly an obvious match of themes, but still, I got to learn about the war, the suffering, and eventually what came after.
I learnt that The first world war acted as a reset to the art world, as Modernism was born, inspiring a wave of new movements indulged in the avant-garde. Modernism strode for new forms of expression, pushing away logical aesthetics that had come before it and embracing everything that was non-sensical and new. Impressionism, post-impressionism, Abstract expressionism, de Stijl, Expressionism, Constructivism, Futurism and cubism were all movements inspired by modernism. It is for this reason I chose to follow through with this topic of dissertation.
It is because a reset is happening in the world right as we speak, COVID-19 is a tragedy, yet it will push people in a similar way the war did. To express and to create work not-seen or accepted by the world before.
There was a reason they called it the 'roaring 20s' after the Spanish flu had passed, every human just wanted to live. I'm sure we'll be seeing the same thing in the world today, when everything has passed and the suffering is over, the world and art will thrive.
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