Barriers: Their place in my work.

The newest part of my artwork and photographs will be the inclusion of barriers in the background as a key or representation of something that separates places, people, and things. The inclusion of these physical objects will be in the background, and probably won’ t be actually separating two of me physically in the image, but it is there as context clues, as something that is there to emphasize and reinforce the work. One of the definitions of a barrier is something immaterial that impedes or separates. In my own work, the barrier is a physical material, but resembles and reflects the separation of something immaterial, personal, and intimate. The large barriers first came from me watching a movie called Wings of Desire, a very powerful movie, where the Berlin Wall was used as a barrier. The wall was never actually addressed in the piece, yet it lingered in the background to emphasize a separation and difference within and throughout the film. This is the same effect that I want to give off with the use of a barrier of sorts in the back of my own pieces. I feel it functions just as other tools that I am using, including the reflections, color, bridges, and rope. Below are just a few examples of what I mean by a barrier, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be a wall.


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barriers