Final Project Proposal on Isolation

      Throughout the years with covid, everyone was subjected to loneliness and separated from others during this unusual time. It created a moment of isolation for everyone without missing a single person. But the feeling of isolation can overtake those that are even with friends or amongst family. With the use of analog and digital Photography, I want to explore the feeling that plagues millions at all times.

      But expressing the feeling in a picture is an entirely different story, and that's when it hit me. The absence of a subject will be my point of focus in my main narrative. I will be using a blend of staged and in the moment subjects. The use of text will be very minimal and contain the lines of media that me and others could find comforting during times of loneliness and stress.

      Below are some artists that have covered this topic and have caught my interest in the topic:

      Laura Thompson is an artist who graduated from the Glasgow school of art in 2015 and University of the Arts in London back in 2012. Laura's recent work focuses on how the general populace has become dependent on technology and Modern science which has lead to the dulling of our senses. In her project senseless, she uses references and material from mythology and urban legends/hoaxes to build these suits that don't fit their surroundings.

      "It is centred on constructed “yeti-like” creatures made up of either disposable manmade plastic forks, earplugs, vinyl gloves, car air fresheners or compact mirrors, each representing one of the senses. These creatures have been consumed by these modern, materialistic items and as such can no longer sense anything at all. Neither human nor animal, they wander between worlds fitting in nowhere, yearning to be part of a world they no longer belong to, and becoming a creature of myth." (Thompson, Senseless para. 2)

      Gonzalo Bénard is an artist, author, and shaman who uses a mix of photography and painting to create his works. Gonzalo focuses on the subjects of life, death, spirituality, and gnosticism. 

Gnosticism

1. a prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.

      I love the dark feeling of his art and how it feels twisted but connected to the deep subconscious of humanity. He talks a out his near-death experience and that brings about his spiritual movement and really delves into his and others relationship with it.