Oh! You Pretty Things

David Bowie is on the television, and he's just overpoweringly brilliant, I feel that there is something about these light soaked, bespangled images from the past of this great, great man and artistic force that is deserving of and needing to be captured. This could be a potential influence on my project. I am interested in the extremely extrovert theatricality of the performances, the quality the primitive film cameras inbue the images with, and mostly the realisation that the shimmering, glittering icons of the golden age of music are perhaps the closest things to living legends we have in the modern world. They are sequined Greek Heroes and Gods, enshrouded in neon spandex and the unimaginable exoticism which is so terribly lacking from modern, sterilised music, film and perhaps even art. There is a bravery and extremism to Bowie's music and performance style, underpinned by lyrical meaning rich enough to support a vast range of concepts in my work. I could perhaps explore juxtaposing/fusing images of musical legends such as Bowie with Romantic/Rennaissance works of art depicting legendary mythological figures.