Mortality

After struggling to feel a connection with my project, I decided to change the focus of it once again, taking it a more personal route by exploring the idea of my own mortality and my fear of death. I decided to start at the most literal point by depicting the human skull, it being a metaphor for death as a way of familiarising with it.

WIth this piece, I decided to use black card with soft pastels as I felt that the colour from the pastels would appear more vibrant on the black card rather than a white background, I also obscured the centre section of the skull as a represention of the way we hide from our own mortality. The idea came from reseaching Damien Hirst and his piece of work 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living .'

I created this piece by continuously moving my pen without lifting it off of the page, the goal being to try and create a metaphor for being alive, constantly moving forwards and back until you come to a stop. If I were to do this again I'd try to recreate but more antamotically correct, focusing more upon proportion.

Both of these pieces were created with the mindset of death being more than just one thing, representing the other side of the coin to life, that both need to exist and that life is more precious because it is limited.