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| Komorebi and Petrichor: DS15 UCLan |
Today we had our last ever hand in at university! Feels very bittersweet, I'm excited to move onto my own new projects but will be sad to see this chapter close. University has been such an unforgettable experience; it's funny how little things seem to change until you look back over the three years as a whole. Finally after a long year, my final project is up and ready for our degree show: Exposé. The exhibition will be open to the public from June 13th - 20th in the Hanover Building, University of Central Lancashire, please feel free to come and see all the amazing work on show! :)
My degree show work has developed from a series of foreign words that cannot be translated directly into English, inspired originally by Ella Frances Sanders' Lost in Translation series. I have been inspired by two words in particular:
Petrichor: the smell of the earth after rainfall and;
Komorebi: sunlight filtering through the leaves of the
trees.
The work creates a narrative exploring the relationship between the two words and my own response to the experiences in relation to the words. The words are a starting point, rather than a necessity in the outcome. The definition is provided to enable the words to be reintroduced but text is removed from the narrative to allow the viewer to formulate their own associations and personal experiences in response to the words. The final show will display a collection of artist zines in combination with physical wall collages.
