In the Final Project for Part Two, Painting 2, we have to think about the ideas we have explored over the course, what we have thought and learned. We must develop a piece or series of pieces, based around learned ideas, concepts and approaches. We are allowed to develop a final piece, using a one of the outcomes from an earlier exercise as a starting point. we also have to send our tutor a reflective account of 300-500 words, which speaks about our experience of developing this Assignment.

Self reflection on the Course and Final Project.

The second part of the Course has become a truly innovative and challenging experience for me, especially in the Combines and assemblage trials. While thinking about what I could do as a Final Project, I realized that I am not that much intrigued and interested in throwing and scattering paints on a large scale what we did in the first part. Instead, I am very much attracted and inclined to work with ready-mades and try myself in this very new genre. I didn’t try creating sculpture yet, but installations and assemblage stimulated my artistic views. While working over the Course and following the exercises, I realized that three-dimensional artworks have a powerful artistic effect. The ready-mades give more power to an artist because of their tangibility. Tangible well-known things trigger memories and suppressed emotions. They bring back pain and joy. The Combines cross this border between Art and Life so easily.
The starting point for my Final projects was my husband’s drawer, where he keeps his belts. I was looking for a bed cover and accidentally opened this drawer in the photo below. I opened it and got shocked and stuck in silence for a couple of minutes, with mu jaw dropping. These belts had some sort of emotional power over me. The drawer by itself is, actually, a good piece of unintentional artistic assemblage attempt. So I took two of them for my composition. The belt has become the central element in my Project because I could not stop thinking about that drawer. I don’t have an idea for the final Project, which would originate early from this Course’s beginning. Sometimes these ideas come to you quickly, sometimes – not, and you have to go through all the exercises, do different things, and try numerous other ideas before you can clearly understand what you can do as a final work. That is why I can not bring here any sketches. I was learning and reading about modern approaches to still life compositions and three-dimensional artworks, so I have been focused on observing ready-mades and searching for assemblage ideas rather than sketching.

Below are my Combines as a Final Project for the Part Two in Painting 2.
The Combine appeared more personal to me than any painting I did so far. My grief for my passed away father is still very strong since I unintentionally ended up again with a composition that speaks about my father’s personality and my childhood memories about him. I arranged four final arrangements, which are three different series. I call one “Eclipse of the Moon or Cursed Brahman”, another one “Disproportionate”, and the third one “The Path”. All compositions are based on on harsh contrast between the elements. This contrast is dramatic. The belt and the white undershirt speak about violence, self-harm and suicidal depression. At the same time, the Christmas tree toy, pink paper origami piece and apples are about the child’s joy and happy part of Life and personality. In the “Disproportionate”, the belt’s strong, masculine and violent look is in deep, overwhelming contrast with pink paper origami, a peaceful and delicate piece.

In ‘The Path”, I have included a toy car and two rotten oranges. Toys and apples are in deep conflict with the belts, while rotten oranges signify the damage of trauma.

Series of my Combines, ‘Disproportionate’