Study Task 1

I lost the sheet I was working on so I will just outline what I wrote in bullet point format

Practice:

Dark humour
Charcaterisation
Poster design/ large scale
Narrative
Faux-naive style
Work generally seems to be a satire of itself
Performance - drag/ combining nudity and physical comedy
Painting/ line work

Phenomena:

Memes/ other such niche humour
Storytelling/ embellishing
The human condition

Theories:

"Life is not shit, but it is stupid."
Satire
Inclusive feminism/ equal rights
Vegetarianism/ being lactose intolerant/ other bodily misfortunes
Alternative comedy/ immersive theatre

I think my strongest interests lie in forms of comedy and expressing this through characterisation and nudity. I enjoy taking a somewhat serious or previously taboo topic such as sexual expression and turning it into something stupid, exaggerated, satirical, and therefore easier to digest. I think to take this further I may consider not involving western culture as there is a vast amount of religious connotations to most historical paintings and illustrations and this will make it difficult to establish humour.