Fine art - Mythology My interpretation of Utopia Journal .,..

Utopia is the idea of world making; about discovering and creating my own form of the world and asking myself the following queries: What would it be?

Where would I go?

Fact and fiction are the two main keys within Utopia Scientists create worlds in other dimensions whereas architects create from the known world. Utopia can literally be anything THERE IS NO RIGHT AND NO WRONG!!! Hallucinations, daydreams, your own thoughts, films, stories that are made up, paintings literally anything.we all have encountered worlds that are different to the one we live in.

I wanted to look at not my own Utopia but how others belive the world was created and i came acoss mythology and stories about how the world came to be made and how people came to live in the world.

 However myths are not real they are stories that have been told for many many years and its like chinese whispers goes from one person to another and so on. "one persons myth is anothers religion belief; one persons truth anothers fiction." Every myth is a shaft of human truth.

Sketching of skull and ribs represent a myth i read from my book ( i may as well move into that library as my bedroom has been overtaken by books and col work ) :D the skull and ribs where taken from the brutal frost giant ymir and they created the stones and rocks for the world. the hands and kneww coming up out of the lava re[present another myth I found particulary interesting "made from mud".

Within these pictures I was inspired by the stories of adam and eve, odin, and man made from mud myths; Adam took a rib from his own  to create woman Eve.Thats why men have one less rib than women have.   I got ribs from the butcher and  painted them with red ink mixed with mud and left to dry I then splattered the mixed mud with red ink to create blood all over my A2 sheet and the mythical story of Odin which people belived we was created half animal half human hatched  from an egg,  I therefore drew a big massive circle around the ribs and blood and cut up to represent the cracked egg from which Odin the mythical creature hatched out off and thats how the world and man was created half human half animal.

Within this A2 image I really don't like working on a white background so I stuck strips of brown paper tape in different rows and I was really inspired by the Myth  where ...... was struck by an arrow in the tree and from that tree the world was made, I have used natural forms mud to draw my tree and used real leaves stuck down and each twig and stem is supposed to represent natural life how things are formed and that they keep on growing and exploring. 

The tree roots go down and off the page as I am trying to represent the continuation and expantion of life;  we as people are always developing and life after death and creation. 

 Here I did another development piece to help with my ideas as I felt a bit lost at this point in the project I didn't know where really to go with the project or how to develop my Mythology further. So I took another myth that I was inspired by "Orchid and the egg" a minotaur that was created from an egg cracked from his shell he then took a rib from his own and created man. Using natural forms I Got some ribs from the butchers dyed them in red ink and compost and stuck them using a glue gun to my A2 sheet. Using the red ink I splattered flicks and splodges of it here there and the same with the mud I then got the glue gun and ran it all over my ribs to portray the guts and goo inside a mythical creature and the white bit off a egg as if it was cracked open.    

The next design stage for me was how to get my image to look like an egg so I used pencil and string as I didn't have a compass big enough to draw a massive circle so I tied one end tight enough to the pencil and the other pinned to my paper and went round fluently to draw a big massive circle to create an egg shape.  

When orchid came out of the egg it cracked , and I wanted to portray this so I cut out a zig-zag shape in one corner of the egg and cut them into smaller pieces as you can see from my images. 

Furthermore my ribs didn't stick to my paper as they were to heavy for the cartridge paper I was using so I had to attach them to the paper using string; as the ribs were to strong for the paper it made the paper flop and crease also I had to remove my ribs as I didn't boil them first before I dyed them in the red ink so by the time my next lesson came round a week later the stunk the room out when I needed them a week later not really a good impression with the class either.

I began to move away from the Myths and stories for a little while and started to look at surrealist artists and their interpretation of their utopia and I came across the following in a book I found particularly interesting  women artists and the surrealist movement. Looking at a different interpretation of how others see the world and abstract view.

Surrealist artists ....

Moving Back to my Original idea of Mythology and creating my final piece ....

Firstly I started by researching mythology looking at  many various legends, myths folktale