The Puzzle begins...

At the moment I am on a two month exchange trip to Seoul, South Korea, I've been thinking about the brief set for my second year art Degree course back in Huddersfield... how it inexplicably links, yet does not quite fit with the slightly conceptually removed work I have been dabbling in out in Korea, and how this muddle of ideas within my head ironically makes my purpose seem all the more clear. Using imagery, context and references from the film 'Zabriskie Point' I intend (although it should be too early into the project to direct my ideas down one narrow pathway, but I am determined to do it from a sense of experimental duty to myself) to explore the difficult concept of loss upon the individual. The sense of loss spans over so many varied yet connecting themes; personal, the loss of family, friends, pets or even treasured possessions and role models; cultural, loss of tradition, icons or particular political, religious or social endeavours; financial loss, bankruptcy, economic depression; loss of health, illness both mental and physical, of memory, of independence; loss of spirit, or of self- esteem... the loss of oneself, or at least the misplacement of it can be the most bitter of all; of hopes and dreams, failure to reach certain goals, of not living the life which you had anticipated. Firstly, I want to explore these multi-faceted areas of Loss, through studies of psychological reasonings such as Attachment Theory and emotional well being to gain more scientific explanations into the mental processes of loss... then I want to determine more personal, qualitative data through recordings the memories and experiences of loss between individuals, and to ascertain through visual and text-based observations if there are any notable behavioral patterns and inconsistencies caused by 're-living' these memories and experiences (both of myself and of willing participants). I want to through loss into the open and attempt to DE-CONSTRUCT it... to piece together the fragments by breaking them apart again in different ways... though if I ever succeed, or even attempt to do so, in putting the pieces back together again widely depends upon what this experience teaches me about my own nature of 'dealing with loss'...