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Losing my mind

This will be a brief description of the work (min 150 - max 200 words). Losing Your Mind is an artistic work that represents how anxiety and worries can take control of one, clouding one’s judgment. We have all felt this way at some point in our lives, but that does not diminish the importance or value of the problem.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The geometry of the squares and lines in the works of Vera Molnar and the gray, black and white tones (in the works that do not use color) caught my attention, a somewhat crude contrast. But at the same time, it has a delicacy in the lines that speaks of an emotional duality that provoked me. Therefore, I decided to be inspired by his aesthetic technique to do my work. For the silhouette I used beziers, I wanted the human figure to obtain a certain finesse and fragility, just as we are in reality. For the wandering thoughts, I used simple squares, I wanted them to be large to represent the brutality with which anxiety destroys the mind.

According to Nathalie Heinich in “The Work Beyond Art”, although a contemporary piece may have logic, without the author’s own context, the interpretation is personal to each individual or even none at all. Which led me to try to clarify the specific meaning of my work with the same work. For that, I used the silhouette of the person, which consequently, incorporates a clearer meaning since without it, the squares could have a huge variety of interpretations.

In the text “Redefinition of artistic practices” by Jose Luis Brea, I found interesting pillars when it came to establishing an intellectual and emotional connection with my work. Both in point 1 and 25, which go hand in hand in certain aspects, mention authors and copyright and how there is no such author, due to the great circulation of various ideas in society. It is almost impossible to find an original artistic work, because although they may not share technical features, at some point they share significant similarities with other works already made previously.

My concept is popular in today’s society, I would even say, proclaimed. I will have seen numerous representations of it, yet, no matter how varied ideas I think of, I will find at least one artistic incarnation of it. I decided to create my version of said idea, even though there probably already exists one very similar, or even identical to my work.

Bibliography

HEINICH, Nathalie. (2014). “La obra más allá del objeto”.

BREA, José Luis. (2008). “Redefinición de las prácticas artísticas”.