Thursday, February 11, 2016

Hybridity - Ross Ashton

Ross Ashton

Ross was born in sheffield in 1961. Started out as a photographer and moved to London to do projection art. Which he started doing in 1992. 

"His years of experience have produced an instinctive understanding of the relationship between artwork and structure, light and surface, object and subject."

Ross targets emotions with structure . Showing symbolism between a concrete device and fluid expression. His piece named Palimpsest contributes to this motive as he stated. "theme of man's need and desire to understand the universe around him, and to pass on knowledge through the generations."  

Ross drives with his work mostly making it interactive. He creates artwork where the public has plenty of opportunities to be apart of the show. Also Ross interchanges his art works through the showings. In Palimpsest he shows off a bee trying to symbolize human drive and it switches to a different part .. that in its self is suppose to mean theme of man's need and desire to understand the universe around him, and to pass on knowledge through the generations. Then it goes to a piece of art he says traces the start of communications . 

His objective is to create symbolism through projections so a variety of people can see it from so many angels. His art work is always in public display and has even been in films and tv. 


I learned a great deal about Hybridity as it can be the way you present your art and not what is just in it. The form of media you advertise your work can have its own simple meaning in its own. Even watching that banksy documentary you could tell it was more intriguing to find his art instead of him just posting it on Instagram. I also found immersion with the simple concepts can be taken away more after someone sees your art even if everyone does feel the same way about your piece. The way i can add to my artwork is with subtle differences with how it is presented maybe through the idea of generalists or with color scenes to set an emotion to an otherwise emotionless image.

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