Future Plans

My project is far from over... I thought I would have been able to come up with an amazing final piece by the end of the semester but no way. I have had a lot of suggestions from classmates and my professor about expanding this project to allow people to have a "migraine experience" or as close to one as possible. The idea was to have an actual installation or "cave" that people can walk through an experience what I see, feel and hear. It would be really interesting to have the different stages as i explained earlier in my blog. I would have people walk in to a room or some kind of area with lights and intense flashes (like what i see), then there would be a period of darkness followed by my sound piece with different thoughts of mine, and perhaps even my voice reciting sentences that don't make sense. Making it interactive would be really interesting because i think people would get a better understanding of what it actually feels like- or as close to that feeling as possible.

Texture

I was trying to incorporate texture. Clearly this was a huge FAIL! But anyway, moving on...

This image is very difficult to explain because it is a representation of what I think is going on inside my body. Every time I have a migraine I feel as if it is breaking down my body in some weird/ bad way and essentially making me sick. The purple grey color represents the color that invades my muscles and organs. Usually the coloring is more vibrant on a healthy human being, but this is the paranoid part of my that thinks there may be something else wrong other than headaches. This painting also portrays fears I have about my condition. It is uncertain, mysterious, and doesn't give off a feeling of happiness or content. The metallic strip (which is hard to see in this photograph) is representational of the fuzzy lights i was talking about in my previous posts. It is important that i incorporate that aspect in most of my images.

Closer look

This painting is one of my favorites because it is sort of an abstract image of brain nerves- or what we think they look like. I painted mostly in blue and black because those are the colors I think of when I think about migraines and what is going on in my brain. The yellow/orange dots are my ideas of where the problem areas are.

With this painting I was focusing on what I see (when I was describing the "fuzzy lights" in my vision.) It resembles lightning in a way, except it is constantly in motion. The colors are always a whitish grey and since I am trying to stay out of the light, the background is always black. I like this painting a lot. At first I didn't think it was completely finished, but this is a fairly decent representation of what I actually do see. Also, it fades away and comes back, which is why there are more dominant lines, and softer ones.

After the failure with motion, I decided to paint instead. Originally I wanted to present my sound, paintings, and have the objects that instigate the migraines. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to finalize all of that, but when the time comes I will be posting the finish presentation.

This particular photo is still in the works. I was trying to make an abstract photo about blood, nerves, and muscle. The scale is not very good, I should have painted on a larger canvas. The colors however, I am happy with.