Friday, 27 January 2012

Where am I going?

In life, with this project, on the dlr? Fuck knows is the answer. I woke up this morning and jumped on the dlr, to where I had no idea. I sat there and did some sketches of people on the tube and wrote a few comments next to them. I got off at Tower Gateway and went for a walk, over Tower Bridge and along the river to the Tate. I wasn't going to go in until I saw an exhibition displayed "Support by Louis Vuitton - Yayoi Kusama", so I decided to go in and see what all the fuss was about. Before deciding whether I wanted to pay out £8.50 I went upstairs to check it out and came across giant inflatable polkadot balls on the floor and hanging from the ceeling. So I sat and watched the video about Kusama and ran downstairs to buy my ticket.
Kusama is also an artist from Japan, best known for her immersive large scale instillations. Much of her art has an almost  hallucinatory intensity that reflects her unique vision of the world. Her compulsion furniture works have a surreal quality suggesting a dreamlike world in which an internal obsession is projected into the physical realm. 
After reflecting on this exhibition and thinking about Miyamoto it occurred to me that actually these two were actually in someway walking down a similar path, both of their works could be considered as escapism; Kusama with her immersive instillations and Miyamoto with his video gaming world. And this 'journey' I went on today was very much so escapism for me too, recently a few things have happened to me that have put me in a bad place and in my own way I've been using escapism to help me through it. I really didn't want to spend the day by myself going on an 'adventure' because it leaves me stuck by myself in my own head and the thought of that recently has been the most horrifying thing, I get overwhelmed by my thoughts and I can't cope. However the day really helped me take a step forward and I really enjoyed going out by myself and wandering off into my own little world, I was happy and I felt free. 



















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