SERIES OF EMOTIONS
The aim of my final collection of works was to explore the dynamics of documentation today and to demonstrate my findings in relation to emotion in particular.
In my first work, I wanted to develop a more enhanced form of documentation. Based on my social experiments I discovered that people preferred to ignore any negative emotions they experience. This tendency to only post positive images can lead to people “faking” happiness and therefore undermining the accuracy of documentation. Which is why I developed the Chart of Emotions which I made in Photoshop using the relationship between heat maps of the human body when experiencing emotions. The emotions are not labelled and are specifically separated into colours so that viewers can see how e.g. the emotions experienced between love and hate are actually quite similar.
My next artwork, The Essence of Moni Chippada, includes a bottle with a scent that represents my friend. Through my experiments I discovered how smells can influence a person’s emotion and perception. Similarly, I determined how people could be embodied through scents to achieve an enhanced form of documentation. As the saying goes, people may forget what you did but will remember how you made them feel, this artwork demonstrates how scents can evoke emotions and therefore generate a more lasting form of documentation.
Lastly, Who Am I? is a portrait of Moni that has been manipulated to convey how documentation today has influenced our sense of identity. Since her face is a culmination of “selfies” in colourful filters that contrasts to the dark background, I wanted to accentuate the unreliability of documentation. How a person views oneself and how others view them is significantly different and is reflected through her having more than one face. Furthermore, even though the subject is staring directly at her viewer there is still a sense of distance created by the layers of selfies. However since these are my interpretations of a person, the collection demonstrates how documentation will always be subjective.
In my first work, I wanted to develop a more enhanced form of documentation. Based on my social experiments I discovered that people preferred to ignore any negative emotions they experience. This tendency to only post positive images can lead to people “faking” happiness and therefore undermining the accuracy of documentation. Which is why I developed the Chart of Emotions which I made in Photoshop using the relationship between heat maps of the human body when experiencing emotions. The emotions are not labelled and are specifically separated into colours so that viewers can see how e.g. the emotions experienced between love and hate are actually quite similar.
My next artwork, The Essence of Moni Chippada, includes a bottle with a scent that represents my friend. Through my experiments I discovered how smells can influence a person’s emotion and perception. Similarly, I determined how people could be embodied through scents to achieve an enhanced form of documentation. As the saying goes, people may forget what you did but will remember how you made them feel, this artwork demonstrates how scents can evoke emotions and therefore generate a more lasting form of documentation.
Lastly, Who Am I? is a portrait of Moni that has been manipulated to convey how documentation today has influenced our sense of identity. Since her face is a culmination of “selfies” in colourful filters that contrasts to the dark background, I wanted to accentuate the unreliability of documentation. How a person views oneself and how others view them is significantly different and is reflected through her having more than one face. Furthermore, even though the subject is staring directly at her viewer there is still a sense of distance created by the layers of selfies. However since these are my interpretations of a person, the collection demonstrates how documentation will always be subjective.