About my work “What a Wonderful World” - mix media
size: 3F x4F (122cmx91.5cm)
At first glance, the picture looks boring and simple but if you look closer and closer noticeable that the flowers hide the figures of dead soldiers and other disturbing objects...as 'teddy bear Muhammad' and oil pipe.
A British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam's Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7112929.stm
The overall theme in my work deal with the contemporary world which is evaporating into a physical, emotional or psychological disaster. I’m interested in ideas of the spectacle developing a shifting paradigm contrasting mix media technology with more traditional painting methods. This encompasses an exploration of diverse visual conventions from history painting to contemporary everyday imagery, making them difficult to place contextually and giving them an edge of uncertainty.
It is about our sons and war.
We can pretend that everything is OK and 'sound'...but young men dying...
Why? And who cares?
I do.
I am a mother of two sons.
I want viewers to have an experience. See something for the first time, or see something in a different way. I suppose, to inspire some curiosity. I get bored easily; I always need to be doing something. So I strive to make something people actually will spend time looking and exploring.
Every day we pass by tons of people and art around and feel nothing for them? If something or someone is pathetic enough, like an extreme tragedy on TV, all of a sudden we care. That isn’t me. I care all the time. I suppose my work is tragic enough that you feel for them….
People
go to war maybe for the sake of some wonderful ideal, in the end it just wastes
people's lives.
No
matter how much progress is achieved through war, there is just as much and
more regression. War is absolutely needless if progress is desired.
My
work depicts the afterimage of a battle.
One
of the most important aspects of the painting is the ambiguity. From a distance
it looks beautiful, but if look closely will see horror of war. The brutality
of war is clear here, as there is no mercy.
The
remains of the oil pipe along with the dead bodies must be too much for any person
to think about real reason of contemporary wars.
The
bright colour of the flowers is over the clearing, and is not far away from all
the death, while the dark colour symbolic of evil looms over the battlefield,
the place of all destruction and misery.
The
governments need to use our children to fight in battle and possibly die in
order to protect their supremacy.
Many
young men are sent to wars to aid in the goal of acquiring oil in order to fuel
governments’ necessities, such as more arms and bomb production, but never
return.
“What
a Wonderful World” also demonstrates although one may have a good reason to go
to war, fighting the war itself will cause more problems, and will ultimately
reverse any progress towards achieving the original purpose.
