Topic : Suffering (because my year out has been about the suffering in mental illness)
Crazy contrast: Aztec art (because I like it and because I am studying it for Constellation and because there was suffering in the violent culture) and my art.
Size: small, lots (a wall), half in Aztec style and half in my style?
Fridays: go to life drawing for hands, back, feet, head (to depict Christ’s suffering)
Cultural comparison of religious art: Aztec gods demand blood vs Christian God demanded blood to forgive sin (cross)
About: clash of two cultures coming together in one art piece.
Wow! This is harder than I thought. Something doesn’t feel right, like a dress that doesn’t fit well so you keep pulling it down. Maybe I am too consciously influenced by my disertation (Constellation) research in Subject.
Ruth Newell 