Avril 14th by Aphex Twin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBFXJw7n-fU
My piece is a conglomeration of nine photographs, all with a specific representational visual element. My family is irrefutably the most important responsibility, priority and blessing in my life. My film studies and aspirations in life in comparison are trivial and inconsequential. These photographs are a representation of my struggles as I seek a balance of priorities and time spent with my family and efforts in making a career as a filmmaker and artist.
My piece is a conglomeration of nine photographs, all with a specific representational visual element. My family is irrefutably the most important responsibility, priority and blessing in my life. My film studies and aspirations in life in comparison are trivial and inconsequential. These photographs are a representation of my struggles as I seek a balance of priorities and time spent with my family and efforts in making a career as a filmmaker and artist.
The first photograph in the sequence of nine is of my
daughter at the Museum of Art. She stares into the massive eye of a behemoth
female Cyclops. This is a representation of how at times art can be the
priority and domineering presence in her life. Although the photographs are of
my children, Isis and Aiden, they are in fact a reflection of me, and my struggles
to balance my priorities. As of now these two compartmentalized areas of my
life are not correctly balanced. I attend class everyday of the week and when I
am done I spend an enormous amount of time on homework and film projects. I am
pursuing one of the most competitive professions in the world. My awareness of
how extremely difficult it is to make it in the film industry can cause me to become
fixated, spending long hours to educate myself and get as much experience on
set as possible. This combination inevitably creates conflict in my life. The
remaining photographs are of abstract cautionary yellow, labyrinthian art and
of my beautiful children. The yellow puzzled abstractions, also represent my efforts
in solving the puzzle of my artistic abilities can create a sustaining family
career. My life is not complete, and needs to be fully pieced together and
balanced correctly. As you can see the photographs of my children have a tinge
of yellow representing an imbalance. I have a lot of work to do in order to
piece both areas of my life back together. The last photograph is of my
daughter, one of the most prolific artists I know being proud of her
gingerbread house. This photograph represents the balance of how my family and
art can coexist.
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