Etchings

Translating this idea in to etchings proved a lot more difficult and my ideas became more complex debating my beliefs and theories to myself, to find a point of view I could defend under scrutiny, I proceeded with the prints but now feel my idea needs to be expressed and explored through different mediums. This is the result of etching them …

the artist as the ape......

Decamp: La scimmia pittrice

Banksy

 

 

 

 Gabriel von Max, Affe vor Skelett, c. 1890

 

 

 

 

Alfred Kubin, Science, 1901

 

 

  Planck Ape

 

 

 

I watched Project NIM to further my understanding of apes, which

"Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s. " This opens your eyes to the definition of humanity.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1814836/

Headlines and storie; a point of view.

“Blending politics, picture making and text to tell tales”. Looking at the news and headlines I couldn’t help but think mass media was prioritising stories of less importance than those of significance, such as celebrity news instead of issues of political significance, war and tragic instances. I deal with the thought of humanity desensitising and distancing from images of death and violence in some form, we seem to be devolving to an extent emotionally when responding to news and that our cousin the ape is almost more sincere. Furthermore the idea of the artist being the ape which was described in a research lecture intrigued me and led me to creating images of apes.

Initial ape drawings and sketches.

Experimented with colour in my initail drawings.

This is the image I want to use for etching.

The preparitory drawing of etching .....