Out of Happy Places - DeLumine
When simply searching 'Happy Places' into google I found this piece, looking more into this artists' work I found some beautiful yet haunting paintings, this use of tone, colour, brushstrokes all feeds into this nightmare like aesthetic. I want to focus on how these factors set the mood and aim to do the exact opposite of that, I was thinking for a future project I want to create as a contrast 'Unhappy Places', as for my foundation I did a project focused on my condition, Hypersensitivity which means in basic terms I'm incredibly sensitive to stimuli, sounds, visuals and so on so I'm ridiculously jumpy. It's linked to my anxiety so it's very unsettling, I feel like I'm at serious risk every time I jump and go into fight or flight mode. 'Unhappy places' would focus on an individuals fear and springing it upon them unexpectedly, again recording their reaction, hear rate and so on.
However for this project I obviously want to stray from all things that make you feel uncomfortable, the main reason I'm doing this topic is to stay away from nightmares and darker moods I'm usually more comfortable with utilising from experiences, last night for example I had recurring sleep paralysis which I usually manage to turn into lucid dreaming through self training but I'm yet to actually turn it into something pleasant, so I can move myself out of the paralysed state of sleep paralysis, yet I'm still walking around my nightmare. Remembering the aesthetic of these I can conjure things for my future 'unhappy places' project through recording in a dream journal, as well as come up with polar opposite stimuli to combat the fear these nightmares give me and calm people down before they sleep so as to avoid thinking of negative imagery in the hope that when they fall asleep they have a calm clear mind free from stress.
I'm thinking looking at DeLumine's paintings that maybe I could emulate happy places through paintings, possibly using stock motion animation, much like Loving Vincent, the brush stroke visuals for me are quite soothing.
For me also however the visuals are usually full of quite dark tones which I'd want to get rid of as for me and I'm sure most other people pastels would be more suitable for calming scenes.
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