FMP Reflective Journal

BENEATH THE SURFACE

Shoot Plan

'MIEDZY'

Translation 'between'

Investigating the in-between spaces where the digital, physical and fictional overlap and intersect. The series 'Meidzy' aims to explore an alternative reality. I think it is important for me to touch more upon our increasing dependence on the virtual world of the Internet; the place in which we inhabit today is something similar to a shadowy mirror space where two worlds collide. When these two separates; virtual and reality meet..what do we experience? One could argue that both these worlds are actually real, as the virtual digital world defiantly has an actual impact on our physical lives. But for my purposes I would like to establish that this in-between space - which I want to define as the expanded mirror space we exist in most of the time nowadays - is a real space. It is this mirror-space, this land of the in-between, that I seek to address through this series. 

I seem to becoming ever more obsessed with the enfolded nature of the surface and sometimes the generative abyss which lies beneath and how I can communicate this idea through the medium of visual language. J.G Ballard (1995, p.56) suggests this new dimension of reality can be understood as "as kind of collective lucid dreaming." 

Ballard, J. (1995) Crash. London: Vintage 

(Call Sheet)

Inspiration

Artist Marilyn Minter

Both Marilyn Minter's photography and art work displays a fresh take on beauty featuring a element the grotesque whilst focusing on specific elements of the body. Her vision is of the obscure an refracted. In my next shoot I want to take inspiration from this, creating innovative imagery that creates a sense of fragmentation and mystery to the human form. I see technology as an immersive atmosphere where we see ourselves and our being beneath a superimposed layer of the digital world. This concept aims to display an mirror world where the digital and analogue are integrated seamlessly. Shooting through a glass partition I will physically adorn and impose a layer of colour, movement and detail using water, oil and mac acrylic paint - using makeup beyond just on the canvas of the skin.