Ambiguity is the uncertainty, the unknowing, the non-specific when you cannot quite grab the place or label for interpretation. This gives some kind of open poetic, open chaotic place to be which can be liberating or imprisoning . An element of ambiguity in art is a mystery. A person can look at a visual piece of art or hear a beautiful sound or piece of music or sculpture and there is a thirst to draw similarity give it a label identity or meaning.
The brain searches for familiarity, to place ourselves with it because things may look or sound different and some minds like to seek familiarity and clarity and to give something a name. We seek clarity to place it in a genre, a place, a home . This could be called the unrested mind. For you will be taking in that moment and seeing it, tasting that what is before you. Although some work may command your view it strikes you for its ambiguity something you are unable to place. This could be intentional as when art is ambiguous it stands out .
When thinking about an artist I decide to google and find something I was drawn to.
Through doing this search I found the artist Jade` Fadojutimi. I was drawn to her work and I looked further listening to conversations about her process, from her studio feeling like a bedroom to her love of anime and life escape and soundtracks influencing her mood and that it can be like a dance. She does not see titles as important although once she has a title it levels up the completion and she says a title can bring something to the work. I find her work strikingly playful, the vibrant colours and the honesty with various moods trapped but free, fluid and soft. To the eye, some may look at her work and simply see it as abstract
She does not share the thoughts and influences behind the artwork so the interpretation is with the viewer.
Jade does not start with a titled work but works to a process often to music and also takes inspiration from colour .
Adam Baker is an abstract figurative painter looking at his work I find it to be abstract in its approach of painting what appears to be people. Focusing on the faces that neither look happy nor sad there is a clown element to them that is also quite unsettlling and unknowing although you look at the physical expression and there appears to be some kind of normal. the faces leave you unknowing
