Don’t know how far I can take this week’s subject and how detailed this “diary” will be, but I decided to write it anyway to organize my thoughts.
Even if I proposed the subject this time around I didn’t have a clear idea of what to make. TBH, I didn’t have any idea at all . I’m aiming to create an image that focus on expressing the most complex and the most difficult to describe in words, yet the most important of emotions. So to extract more artistic than technical side out of me (which to my more engineering focused mind is much more difficult compared to focusing on technique).
First, I’ll start with brainstorming for some ideas (feel free to borrow them or suggest some more ).
Ideas:
- “Longing for love”. Table, poetry book, rose, glass of wine, an apple… ideally a person sitting by the table looking in the distance…
- “Love lost” - gravestone with engraving suggesting strong love…
- Simple object associated with love… like a wedding ring or engagement ring. Or maybe going even a bit away from current culture with symbolism and model Ankh…
- Something more broadly defined than a romantic love. What?
- Hands in a shape of a heart.
- Two swans…
- Red lotus slowly drifting in the water
- “Eternal love” - open grave with 2 skeletons holding hands. A bit morbid, but…
Ideas that I’ll not have time or skill to make, but maybe someone will:
- mother holding a baby
- A person’s face expressing love - that’s way beyond my skill to accomplish
- Statue (or re-imagination) of Venus
- Ad 2) with a dog by the grave…
So far non of the above ideas totally capture my interests. First two are the closest, but still not fully “it”. What idea would be ideal is:
- something emotional,
- not cliche, even maybe going towards broader defined love (not as a romance)
- something that’s withing my ability to make till next Saturday…