Though I have always expressed an interest for the lyric form, I have recently found myself needing to produce artworks that either include an interesting lyrical passage that will alter or clash with the scenario of a painting, or become entitled after a song/ lyric. Therefore becoming recognisable and associated with the visual surroundings of that particular song. Questioning my own reasons for doing so led me to believe that I was attempting to transfer some form of emotion that I personally may or may not have been feeling; the importance here was that the well known and well loved words from the past that I was re-using and visually 're-imagining', were able to conjure something that the viewer could relate to, whilst also producing works that were aesthetically satisfying my own requirements of using a subtle, thick and pasty colour palette. I've become interested in theorist Roland Barthes outlook; that it is the viewer that completes the artwork and that it can no longer be the artist, or author.
Currently I feel that using words from my own lyrics allows more of an honesty and personality to transcend throughout the work, doing this does essentially remove any links to popular culture that I may once have used as a gateway, however on the other hand perhaps this itself could be seen as a statement, which would claim that I am attempting to hold myself alongside the pin up heroes of the pop culture I have immersed myself in, which is definitely conceptually an idea I am interested in and wish to develop.
