I made it a lot of final prints in the print room and after a lot of work and effort, blood, sweat and tears I finally finished most of my prints. Some of them turned out less pigmented and patchy than others, some had smudging and one of them I had to repress under the press because it did not push down all the way so it created a motion blur effect which I loved.
This final piece means a lot to me because the background images all merged together of different buildings in different memories in a persons life, the main character in the middle is the devil and it’s almost like taunting you to death but I find beauty in that, when life taunts you into death you have a choice to make and desire to either want for a new start or to stay in the same life is purely up to you and it’s a very psychological and philosophical matter to discuss in one piece and I don’t think I could describe what I fully feel just in this blog but this final piece has made me realise a lot about my life and everything in between it.
I’m really happy with the outcome of my pieces and I don’t think I would ask for a better final piece. I am so happy that I stepped out of my comfort zone and explored something new because it has led me to a whole new world and I feel like I can finally learn something that does not require me to throw a bunch of materials at a canvas and say that it’s art.
When displaying my artwork I decided to go for a more industrial yet nature themed look to bring us back to the roots of life and how we all started and where we have came to, the nails represent different pain and anguish that we go through life to reach something better, the main artworks are hung up by pins to represent the fact that we’re all pinned together in this lifetime and we all suffer and live through a lot but in the end it all connects to start a new life that links us from our souls to our bodies.