The Lost Psyche
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| Katelyn Parker, 2014 |
Part of my objective for this first thread of the body of work is to describe some of the interaction that takes place between the central characters of the myth. This exploration of human weakness and faility is missing from our contemporary understandings of Cupid as consumer culture has sanitised and simplified the text.
In the image here I wanted to describe the intimate physical contact between Cupid and Psyche. The physical touch between the two lovers that the viewer is able to interpret and relate to. For the viewer I believe this puts the myth on a very human level. This enable the viewer to connect more fully and emotionally to the loss of the meaning of the cultural text. I have used images from the public domain as I believe they have an oldness that speaks to the age of the myth.
Bringing the old photographs into the contemporary while at the same time retaining the old quality that I was originally attracted to needed a very sensitive and subtle approach. I thought about what has changed in the way that artists make art, since the Renaissance to now, and the answer lay in the greatest game changer of all time. THE INTERNET and the online creative community. As technology has become cheaper and the online Collective Intelligence grows and grows, artists are able to collaborate to create artworks that just ten years ago would have been impossible. I have sourced textures created by artists who specialise in them to include in my final artworks. By doing this the antiquity of the figure stock is retained but the final images are able to sit comfortably in a contemporary forum.
In the image here I wanted to describe the intimate physical contact between Cupid and Psyche. The physical touch between the two lovers that the viewer is able to interpret and relate to. For the viewer I believe this puts the myth on a very human level. This enable the viewer to connect more fully and emotionally to the loss of the meaning of the cultural text. I have used images from the public domain as I believe they have an oldness that speaks to the age of the myth.
Bringing the old photographs into the contemporary while at the same time retaining the old quality that I was originally attracted to needed a very sensitive and subtle approach. I thought about what has changed in the way that artists make art, since the Renaissance to now, and the answer lay in the greatest game changer of all time. THE INTERNET and the online creative community. As technology has become cheaper and the online Collective Intelligence grows and grows, artists are able to collaborate to create artworks that just ten years ago would have been impossible. I have sourced textures created by artists who specialise in them to include in my final artworks. By doing this the antiquity of the figure stock is retained but the final images are able to sit comfortably in a contemporary forum.
Figure stock is from the public domain retrieved from Wikimedia Commons
Textures by NinjaRabbit-Stock
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