Assignment 4 – Refining the brief, and a title!

I have now shared yesterday’s post with a couple of fellow students and asked for their opinions. The general feeling was that there were plenty of ideas there, but that I had not yet refined it all down to a specific train of thought and that I needed to do that before submitting it. Yesterday afternoon was spent in the Slough of Despond, but as often happens I began thinking about it in the middle of the night and wrote down some free verse scribblings on where I am heading. This is what I wrote, and it came to mind with a readymade title for the series, which was helpful.

One little button
The key to everything under the sun and even far beyond.

With no restraint, there are no boundaries.
So where to go when no one else is looking?
Your wildest dreams, darkest perversions, deepest nightmares.

All are one; the same. Without a filter.
Play, surf! Do whatever you desire.
Lose yourself in exploration and never mind the cost.

It’s all the same to them. Every click includes their financial cut.
No morals, no rules, anything goes.
Nothing is forbidden.

↵Enter.

What came to mind after I had written this was Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights. Although the piece was made in the 16th century, and its exact meaning remains unclear, it obviously considers some of the same concepts about the consequences of total freedom that I have been mulling over. On that basis, I have decided to explore the idea held within this image below further, using transparent overlays to think about our relationship with the internet. The idea will be for the viewer to be able to look at each part of the image separately or together, effectively producing three image options in one – a triptych.

References

Museo del Prado. Bosch, Hieronymus (1450-1516) The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych. [online] At: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-triptych/02388242-6d6a-4e9e-a992-e1311eab3609 (Accessed on 11 September 2019)