I am an artist and would like to ask…
How Are You?
Why do I want to know?
Life has become more complicated lately. It seems like every issue asks us to choose a side. However, day-to-day life still goes on, and we all need to get along with each other.
Because of this, I’m creating an abstract mosaic artwork. This piece will show both how individual we all are, and how we are united, in all our wonderful differences.
To make this happen, I need your help. The answers I receive from each of you in the short, anonymous questionnaire below will decide YOUR colours. These colours will then join all the other colours in the artwork.
The Who, What, When etc.
My name is Olly Honeywill, and am an artist/NHS ward admin, based in Margate, Kent. I have a keen interest in collaborative Art. You might be from anywhere; take the survey, and let’s see what happens.
I have created this website to gather a sense of how people feel from as wide a group as possible, with the intention to use their responses to create a Collaborative Art piece that will effectively be a visual representation of how people feel.
There is no time like the present. I hope this project will keep growing, and so the Art piece will too. I will process the responses as we go, and I hope to use them in a number of different ways to express the feedback given.
In the first instance, this will be based online. Artists have to work within their means, so the internet has become my studio, and this, in turn, has affected my practice, however, I hope this will also lead to an exhibition, and eventually some Art objects too.
The last 10 years or so have put us in a situation where we are forced to reconcile conflicting situations, whilst drawing on an ever-broadening sources of information, and sense of identities, with the risk we become atomised as a society – I want us to put aside difference for a moment to see what we share – our humanity.
I have made a very brief survey. Each return will create its own colour. These will form a mosaic of different colours, giving a sense of variety, without having to explain the differences. There is no ‘correct’ way to feel, and I hope this will become a reflection of Life’s Rich Tapestry.
