Recently I have been exploring a concept of achieving mindfulness through 'switching off' or 'disconnecting' from technology. Personally I associate peace and serenity with nature, therefore I wanted to merge the two together with these collages. Alike to Jack Holling's work I wanted to have a real sense of the handmade in this work, as through emphasising this I think it communicates, through media, a retreat from what we may associate with digital technology - flat colour, 2 dimensionality ect.
I think that the painterly quality of gouache and texture of other media, like pastel and coloured pencil, within the cut shapes creates what I wanted with a real sense of the handmade and analogue media. I think that the use of negative space and the balance of each of the components, as well as the simplicity - does create this feeling of calm, serenity and unwinding.
When making these collages I realised that I preferred the ones looking more at nature, rather than the figures meditating or relaxing. I think my preference to this is because they are perhaps a less conventional image to communicate this concept - as well as I feel like in the figurative collages, the sense of nature and wilderness is lost. I do, however, prefer the ones in which I have added the short phrases and symbols, as I think without this there does not seem to be direct link to disconnecting from technology - therefore I feel I should add text to these final three...
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