final evaluation of project

My project started with the research phase, gradually learning and gaining incite into synaesthesia, a condition in witch the occupant's senses pass over each other, causing involuntary pulses of colour, smells, sound or feeling. Some examples include smelling perfume and seeing pink or hearing a door slam and having a flash of colour or shape appearing for a second and fading away. These syneathetic experiences are very memorable, chances are if you had one in childhood you could still describe it in detail to this day.
After the rather interesting research stage I started to experiment with colour. I thought that I could use colour to represent different notes of a stave like Kandinsky did. I found this really hard so just painted to music instead. I did approximately 20 different experiments before I decided my composition. In the end I wasn’t that good at translating sound to colour so used ‘itunes visualiser’ to generate the background for my final piece. This mixed with a picture I drew looked great.
In the painting stage it went smoothly with not many problems in the practical aspect though I did find it difficult choosing colours. To solve this, my tutor arranged a ‘group crit’ with my class to discuss how I could take this painting further. The painting needed to be tidied up, I had to somehow use yellow or purple in the painting to make it look less like a satellite picture (it kind of looks like a map) and must use the chosen colour in the wooden part of the piece to make the picture flow. I decided on yellow as it is complimentary to the other colours. The greens on the edges where blended into blue and all pencil marks and ruff bits where tended to as well. If I could do something differently next time I would plan moor.
So did I achieve what I set out to do? Well yes and no. I achieved my goal but in a different way to what I originally planned. My goal was to produce a sound painting at large scale. I achieved that. The thing I did differently was using a mixture of technology and synaesthesia. I did this because of the simple fact that I am not syneathetic. I quite like it actually; it’s created something that hasn’t really been done before. Many artists have painted to sound so the idea isn’t anything new. But I don’t think many have mixed sound painting with technology.
How does these open pathways into future ideas? Well I could customise my canvasses to the max. Like really extreme so there are no parallel or perpendicular lines anywhere. I quite like the idea of extending possibilities of the canvass. To use a canvass in an unconventional way I could make a series of pictures 4 or 5 completely wrecked shapes, smashed up when I have finished them, really grungy and pushed into corners so the bracing snaps. Completely change the face of the canvases. Maybe not even use paint.