One of the things I both enjoy about studying art is being pushed in new directions. It’s sometimes been a struggle for this 'grumpy old man' to take on new things but when they click, (and they usually do eventually) I feel that I am a better artist for it. One of the things I have begun to explore this year is the idea of depicting conversations without words. Letting the capture of emotions tell the story instead of words.
"A Conversation in Three Parts" was created earlier this year as a Uni project. The only brief we had was to create a triptych artwork digitally. Using photography taken in early 2012 of fellow artist Juli Auriane, I was happy to find a worthy use of them in this piece. At the time of shooting Juli and I were causally talking while I continued to take images the whole time. After a short time the camera was forgotten and I managed to capture plenty of images with some wonderful animation and expression as well as transitory (aka blurry) images that were quite helpful in the final work. Juli was a wonderful model who has a heart the size of Kansas and you can see this I think in the images.
The intention behind the triptych was to distil the conversation and show three different emotional landscapes as they would appear to the viewer. I also wanted to inspire curiosity from the audience as to what could be said in the conversation to illicit each emotion. I deliberately used in each panel three in-focus images bridged by two transitory images to give a sense of the movement and fluidity that occurs naturally while we speak.
I'd like to try this again with a different model at some stage to see how well it reproduces and perhaps even create a series of these triptychs for an exhibition. What do you think of this artwork? Please do leave any constructive feedback you have in the comments below.
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