Love Poem

I’ve been documenting my state of mind since the beginning of the year. Every part of my days is different, sometimes even in a small ways and without being morose. I feel it’s important to contemplate these changes. Even the mundane view I face every morning has new meaning and painting allow my subconscious to absorb and integrate that significant. It then led me on a quest to share a secret as expressed in an artwork that led me to a strange conclusion: I am the secret! I am other people’s secret, not, the least which are the birth mother who put me up for adoption. I don’t doubt that to this day, decades later, I am still their secret. This paintings took on more and more meaning as I worked at it. There were so many different levels, surfaces and other nuances that perfectly reflected the fact that I am a secret in so many levels and in such a wide variety of shades. Intuitively, when I just ‘play’ and see what happens, the result is a journey and it’s much more fun.

Prep for Degree Show

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Munirah My

Series of paintings as a record of everyday life.

– Interactions between the artist and viewers

– Translations

– Manifest as awkward spatial relationships

– Uncomfortable colour pairings and unusual patterns

– Make an idea for themselves upon repeated viewing

– Possibly as a form of therapeutic healing

– Artist’s own imagination / Abstract qualities / All important repertoire of motifs

– Motifs: devices that enables viewers to concentrate and gives attention not only to the surface of the painting but also the motifs that acts like devices; particular mood of each work

– The balance between foreground and background

– Visual journaling / Life experiences / Feelings / Emotional reactions / Artist’s inner worlds

– Articulating connections between my own personal art-making experiences and the work of the Master and Contemporary artists

– Reflective thinking

Painting a series of similar or related paintings:

– Does not mean I’ve run out of ideas or only have one

– A way of pursuing an idea of pushing it to see how far it will go

– Trying out variations to see where I’ll end up

– One painting leads to another and to another

– Elements that I like (Portraiture / Anatomy etc.) that I would rework on the painting

– Blending colours rather than having them such distinctive bands

– Vertical to horizontal arrangements as to represent how I move my point of view from further away

– Declared finish paintings although it is not ‘right’ in my eyes

– More abstract painting of it will make you (the viewer) feel as if you had stepped up close to ‘me’, my life journey in one of the other paintings

– Overlapping and make the dominant colours reversed, to show the significant change between one painting and the others

– Positioning the series as a group than individually will work better

Quote | Posted on May 29, 2013 by Munirah My

We are continually fleeing from the past and we are always fleeing into the future. And we flee into the future, because the past is present and continually about us.