Skills 1

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ideas for skills 1

Here is my research and development for skills 1

What makes me mad about social media

isolation
division
divide and rule
ragebait - oppositional thinking
replaces social interaction - radio 4 about writing losing ability to write and reading
being cult of the technocrats - if it was a cult what would it have symbols of impact
loneliness
cult creations
removes collaboration cooperation

The society that the people wanted is dead, many minds have killed it.

Artists to look into:

Olafur Eliasson
Maya Lin
Jenny Kendler
Agnes Denes
Andy Goldsworthy
Edward Burtynsky
Cecilia Vicuña
John Dyer

what do I want to tell the people who are making society worse:

I don’t want to buy into the cults retoric
there is no way of rallying against them because all isolated
the revolution will not be televised
Orwellian 1984 complicit society -> Hume
let’s start by raising awareness

Art is whimsy, art is sacred to me it is veneration of the beautiful.

Artist’s like Andy Warhol use art for shock, this has grown on social media to raise awareness

Andy Warhol disparate between consumer and art to create shock: Ai Weiwei he uses juxtaposition and defacing archaeological pieces as shock Bansky graffiti with commentary on society - beautiful

How could you visualise harvesting data for free and selling back something you don’t want?

Definition of cult:

a group (such as an organization or religious sect) with tenets and practices regarded as coercive, insular, or dangerous - meirriam Webster

A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. - American dictionary

Our social media bubble is a personalized cult, and most of us treat it like it isn’t. Algorithm as the elite playing god, hidden in plain sight in parallel with nature and the algorithm.

Lichtenstein serial expirements lain

Depiction of mind in art, surrealism!

Depiction of the archetypes and semiotics

how we can change this to show social medias addictive qualities and how that turns us against our better natures?

server in vat of fluid - quantum computer looks cool harks to the idea of a brain in a vat

using vr headsets as shackles with meta logos as chains, alongside chained to a quantumn computer

The print is a failure because of too much detail within a small block, I am learning how to print and am not very good at this yet Made a mistake on cutting of the print and ruined it, also the drawing looks very similar to the Singh twins!

Isolation and loneliness, how hyper individualistic and consumerism affects society, however I’m more interested in alienation from nature, and loneliness that comes of that nature of the self and the natural, is tarot card right way maybe poster would be best looking at symbology?

What symbols are natural and living, what symbols are dead and authoritarian?

What artists embody scared to me

the living and natural

Influences:

Edward hopper
planet of the apes first film
Albert Camus Create dangerously and The Rebel
Oskar Kokoschka art style
David bull,
french school of architecture helping architecture crisis
Vincent van Gogh
Eric revillious
Hokusai
klimt
monet lilypads
renrior
David bull - dreams of future past
singh twins
kehinde wiley

Render in beautiful way but keep juxtaposition! Making your own symbol language:

Perhaps starting with colour theory!

green nature
red urban
yellow? mix
blue nature
gray urban

Trying to solve the architecture crisis of modern times maybe historical methods will help?

The mandated emotions for this society the ones that are fed are not happiness, unless something is consumed.

Gargoyle heads - Disney notra dame -> Corbels in Hereford, Kilpeck

Had a go of showing emotions via Gargoyle heads with dough scuptures:

I then brought this to a screen printing workshop, which was thoroughly enjoyable!

What is alienation from the natural world and showing how we might coexist?

I want to show a world without humans, or nature reclaiming human creations, to show that we are impermanent, and so is nature - we must live with what we create and also live in harmony of nature and our natures.

The overgrowth is what we want to capture so lets start with something completely natural and then add more architecture as we go:

Different ideas of nature, there is also the sea that represents the unconscious:

then we take some architecture that already exists and draw it, paint it too:

We could overlay the two to get an off structure that might give the idea of alienation, as mentioned in tutorial.

Then we move to something more or less mundane - a back garden

Egg tempuras colour is off and this somewhat works not sure about perspective however, too much detail is in it.

Does not work well with idea of overgrowth tutorial said, try using known monuments.