17/09/2023
Submersion (2020)
Submersion (2020) is based on the coronavirus pandemic. Documenting the history and visually documenting my personal feelings towards the pandemic.
With inspiration from John Everett Millais’ Ophelia (1851–52) and the portrail of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. I created a visual response using water; representing the feeling of entrapment and the drowning within my own emotion. The use of green lighting allowed me to juxtapose the represntation of those feelings but also represent the growth of nature that began to happen during the months of lockdown and the growth in society.
Although there was growth, there was plenty of pain. The Black Lives Matter movement and loss of lives was also an important subject to incorportate into this project due to my own belief’s, feelings and personal experiences attached.
