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I already had a few strong images in my head in relation to the song, but I wanted to make sure I captured the entirety of the song. So I wrote out the lyrics and made sure the key aspects were portrayed in the illustration.
My original plan for this piece was for there to be headphones attached to the illustration so that viewers could essentially listen to the drawing. However, upon talking with my tutor I decided that adding the music to the piece adds a layer of connotations and associations that would distract from my intention. So I displayed the imagery on its own.
This made the piece more ambiguous, and in the crit lead people to make their assumptions about the drawing which I quite enjoyed.
Although I am happy with the final outcome I’m not sure if I will continue illustrating songs. I can be creative with the imagery but obviously I have to stick to the lyrics to some degree and I’d rather have more space to explore the imagery straight from my brain.
Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza [1957 Tunis] and Daniel Hauser [1959 Bern] are working as a team since 1983. The ”& co” in their name refers to all kind of cooperations with people. People are sometimes involved in the artworks, othertimes they are just involved in the process, depending on the context of places and themes. The group became known with statements such as thinking alone is criminal (1991), artists are no flags (1993), I am a woman, why are you not ? (1995), getting paid for doing nothing (2007 – 2009) and: you pay but you don‘t agree with the price (1994 – 2013).
This team’s work wants to deal with social order in a way that does not leave the viewer guessing. Their messages are very clear and do not want to be misinterpreted.
I am finding illustrating ‘The Devil in my Bloodstream’ to be a very interesting way to look at mental illness.
My main focus is BPD. Last year I was trying to represent the whole disorder in one image, but I have been considering doing 9 illustrations to represent the 9 criteria that have to be met to be diagnosed with BPD. So I’ve been trying to find a song to represent each of the 9 criteria. These are songs that I already know and are familiar with, because they mean a lot to me.
Jade Montserrat is a UK based research-led artist and writer. She will be using her Residency at Metal in Southend for structured research, reflection, the development of ideas-to-date in relation to “Josephine and the Rainbow Tribe.” This will include the development of script in preparation of film and accompanying text deriving from empirical and historical excavation.
From her talk, I gather that this artists work has many meanings. Looking at the representation of women’s bodies, black bodies, and trying to challenge these modern day societal norms. Although now she is working more wearing clothes as her nakedness has been misinterpreted as sexually provocative which is the opposite of what she wanted to portray.
Our practices are very different, however I could compare our use of black and white in the above piece. Montserrat also referred to a lot of her work being triggered by trauma. This artistic response to trauma is one of the very things I am most interested in in my work.
Rachel Gibson 