Imagery experiences of the self and its sense of place

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This thesis is a supplementary text to my paintings, which will be exhibited in the FASS Art Gallery. My aim is to explore how I perceive and represent my everyday shelters and my psychological moods through painting and, analyse the subject within a background of visual perception. This text will examine my reflections over everyday moments and its relation to the notions of the sense of place and habitus. I will start by analysing the notions of perception and representation and their continuous effect on me in the first chapter. In the second chapter, I will focus on the role of stillness in my perceptual experience and furthermore, I will concentrate on how it leads me to an interaction within myself. In the third chapter, I will analyse the notion of the sense of place and I will investigate how all these aspects make me transform my everyday shelters into psychological places on the canvas. I presume the text will be sufficient to reflect my mental background and thoughts about my painting practice.