Whenever I think about my context, I imagine a vast, not-so-coherent cloud of ideas and experiences that are in dialogue with each other. I have tried to represent this process in the mind map/Venn diagram here. There are four key things that are crucial to my practice – my identity, my environment, and the art and the literature that I consume. Drawing connections and interchanging concepts between these four larger aspects help me to create.
In the diagram here, I have tried to identify some of the things that make up these four aspects. For instance, some of the exhibits that were planned in the first draft of the Cerebral Circus came from my culturally specific experiences. The exhibits in the second draft are drawn from my own experience also, but I felt that they would be more relatable to a wider audience because it is a meditation on an exploitative system that a vast majority of the world lives in.
Here, I was able to interpret my own experience through the critical theory I had read to be able to produce art. I believe this is my method. I respond to creative stimuli that the environment around me provides. I then try to make sense of it or understand it better through research.
Given the rather nebulous manner in which I operate, I thought it might be more useful
to categorise my influences in the two links below.
to categorise my influences in the two links below.
