Digital Works

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After finishing my essay on gender performativity, I was really inspired with what kind of context I want to include in my work. I have been trying for a long time to move away from the fluid painting and classical sculpture interests, but I couldn’t move anywhere as I had no idea where I wanted to go and so I was just floating around for the last few weeks working on more written work than physical pieces. 
After finishing the essay, I started to look more into horror and sci-fi movies. I became really inspired by the visual settings of horror movies, Mostly the houses and the role they play in the settings of the movies. Horror has always been something consistent in my life, the thrill of the movie and the adrenaline rush it gives. The spooky and gloomy aesthetic takes me away into a different world that personifies these demons that cannot be seen in day to day life.

Psycho is perhaps one of the best-known horror/thriller movies ever made, it has become a staple in the genre and described as a cinematic masterpiece. As a child I had a strange fascination with the bates house, the eerie aesthetic as Norman walks up the stone stairs into the beautiful family home. It is the house of my dreams but to others a house of nightmares. I explore that fascination of the house and of the female scream (another horror staple) in this digital collage.

Moving on and experimenting more I also made a digital collage of the Addams family mansion, a visual staple in contemporary cinema. I am not as happy with this collage as I am with the first one based on psycho. I tried using colour in this one and also some imagery of the character but I just don’t think it worked as well.





Another form of experimenting I have done at the same time as these was to work on this video piece, taking inspiration from the golden globes red carpet walk and how they did seductive and classical take on the opening and closing of elevator doors in old time movies, even including the typical elevator music. I took this footage from YouTube and merged it with scene clips from the shining. It was a fun experiment to do, and easy as it was done on my computer, its also a good starting point to get me back into the creative flow but I think that I need something more substantial to go forward in my work coming back into the new term of uni.


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