Sunday, March 18, 2007

Firework


"Take this knife
Cheer up my life"


This image captures one of my state of mind, when the brain is tightly squeezed and heavily pressured. I feel in my subconscious a yearning to be hurt to be relieve. That is because my brain has already been hurt so much; therefore it fades any other physical pain, turning it into something mysteriously attractive. It works the same way with fear- fear turns into an excitement.


This image is not to "say" smt. It only expresses feelings. And the emotion here is the joy of pain and fear.


"Pain" is expressed in the distorted image of a person. The image looks like an explosion, or at least like a shot. The joy shows itself on the smile of the person and in the title of the image- "Firework". The name gives a feeling of merriness and also expresses the feeling of explosion inside the person's mind. Death is a show- enjoy it!


The font I choose can be seen in films, where details of a criminal are shown for example. It gives a feeling of indiferrence and coldness, which are also the attitude of the author before this scene of damage. The colouring of the title's background also serves to aid this purpose, since the modern feeling it gives is also associated with neutrality (as they are often used in poster, they seem to say: nothing very important, just a show). The last parts of the title are blurred as if they had been burnt.


If you think all the analysis above sounds like making up- how can I think about so many detailed things when working with this image- well, in fact, when I created the picture I did not think in words as much. I just followed my subconscious. And now, I am trying to interpret what it was telling me. I think that is exactly what image analysis is- interpreting the subconscious. Artists think subconsciously.

1 comment:

Khang said...

Wohoo... our little Zanachan has surely come up with something cool! I can catch the eerie and devastating atmosphere coming out of the artwork, judging from the red grainy background with dark red indicating pain while grain for confuse and fear; all are certainly in tune with your feelings as described.

I wonder what mental factor led you to this stage? Or was it only in your subconscious domain?