Upcoming Midterm Project

For the Drawing midterm project, I started researching putti, or in English, cherubs, and their role throughout Renaissance art. Donatello virtually invented them, and the first sculpture is in the Bargello here in Florence! Since then, they've been synonymous with the "sculptor's goblins," helping hand out garlands and run errands, but are mainly used for comedic relief in churches, where the scenes from the Passion can get very depressing.
I wanted to explore this role and juxtapose images of these flying babies with war photography to show how unrealistic this goal is. The latter photograph is a collage of photocopy transfers in which the viewer is aware of the cherubs, but the photographs of the soldiers are much more abstract and fade into the background. However, this led to a more metaphorical plan to treat the putti as rests in sight and experiment with rhythm and motion. I am attempting to make a scroll this week that I can roll behind those 3 figures on the left, playing with motion and sound as patterning, much like my theme sequence experiments.