Following a very productive and positive tutorial with Jane Watt whilst she found the areas I wished to study in really interesting. However her wisest words were to focus on one idea for now and develop that into a finished piece whilst keeping the other ideas developing in the background. The idea that I felt was most interesting right here, right now was the Siblings video installation piece. I have never been a huge fan of video installations all too often finding them a little underwhelming and often pretentious, lacking depth and ideas and un-visual. So armed with only a little knowledge and experience of them (alongside many preconceptions and misconceptions) as well as the fact that the notion of creating them is outside of my comfort zone it seemed to be a great jumping off point.
The basic idea for the work will be a three screen (triptych) installation with one screen representing each of my sons Isaac, Jacob and Noah. The initial basis for the piece is to explore the notion of what siblings are and how they are defined. It will consider their inter-relationships and the dynamics of this, their own self view, the view of those closest to them (parents) and the views from "experts" such as child psychologists.
I have never enjoyed the often lazy idea of readily applied labels, pigeon holing or classifying things especially people even though I am myself often guilty of it! After reading some literature on the relationships between siblings and the roles that they play and feeling that with my own boys some of this was instantly contradicted I became fascinated with the idea. Chatting with friends there are indeed similarities between, for example, the eldest child and their personality, views and character traits. The papers published on the topic do often ring somewhat true but being a parent there are always interesting contradictions too.
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