AN EXPLORATION OF VISUAL LANGUAGE
The purpose of this whole project was to examine a process that is often intrinsic to art making. Defining a palette and shape language often can explain pieces of work maybe even better than any summary or written description ever could. It even creates its own visual language conveying something to the viewer and certain pieces can even speak differently to each viewer depending on the experiences that they bring to the piece and how successful the piece is in variation. I look at my project, as it is transitions through different phases. The first phase being the 25 small pieces, meant to establish a color palette and set up my shape language. By discovering this I was able to build on my later pieces and develop the themes that I had been working with for this project. In my second phase I would take from the smaller pieces to build a more complex visual language. I discovered that as I kept worked larger in the second and third pieces, the pieces got much more defined and the palette slightly darkened. Through the smaller pieces I started to look at my larger pieces as painting within paintings. In these pieces there is often pockets of space, or paintings within paintings. Looking at this pieces as sectioned off work makes looking at the compositions as a whole very intriguing. Sometimes this can kind of make the pieces feel a little bit like a map, like there is some kind of key to figuring out the bigger picture.
