New Draft Project Proposal ♥

My change in idea came mainly from the most recent breakup of a relationship. I had experienced a serious relationship previous to this one which made me realise that im not ready for all that again in my life, i just want to go out, be young and have a great time without the pressures of a relationship. I have used relationships as a concept in my work before and I really didnt want to create a pattern. I decided to use something that was personal but just focusing on me and no one else. So here it is, my new proposal...

"My idea for my consolidated project comes from my aspirations of what I want in life. I have just celebrated my 20th birthday this year and have entered a new age decade, that brings with it all different kinds of problems and choices I will have to make, regarding which path I want to take in life. There is an ‘ideal’ life that has been formed from the society that we live in, that our only true happiness in life comes from meeting ‘the one’, settling down and having children. It can be seen often in movies and television. I am in that age bracket now, where in a few years, women start settling down, getting married and having children. I have lived through a similar experience but at a young age, which has left me feeling really opposed to the idea of having to get married and have kids while I’m still young. My new aspirations in life are to be a happy, successful woman, who goes out with her friends, has a good time and just enjoys being free and
independent.

My biggest spur and inspiration for this idea comes from watching my favourite television show, Sex And The City. The show focuses on 4 unmarried, successful women in their 30’s, without any children, living in New York. I really aspire towards the lives that they have. They have great jobs, great friends, live in a great city and go out, enjoy their lives and live for themselves. Sex And The City will be a big part of my research and inspiration for my project but I would also like to research artists who show a similar idea within their work, about women who are successful, happy and single. I want to mainly look at fine art and fashion images and artists, perhaps documentary if it is aesthetically pleasing. I also want to look at things that make me happy, such as fashion, friends and places.For this project I would like to experiment with different techniques that I haven’t used before and experiment using different camera’s, such as Polaroid. I love the style Polaroid creates. I would also like to look at different printing and exposure techniques such as printing on opaque surfaces, like acetate and glass. I also want to experiment with light and colour to see what I can create aesthetically. This all being to broaden my practical use within photography and maybe discover new techniques and styles that I will enjoy using in future work.

I feel that my idea for the project fits really well into my own practice. I often do work that are self portraits and aesthetically pleasing. The self portraits relate to me and my life and experiences and the aesthetics of it are like my love for all things beautiful and to be happy. I love focusing on personal things in my work that are happening in my life at that moment in time and the idea I am proposing is one that has been a huge realisation on my outlook on life and I want to express and celebrate that.I want to hopefully inspire other women out there to have a different outlook on life and know that there is more out there than just getting married and having children. I am wanting to celebrate and show that these women, that chose to not get married and have children, are just as fabulous and happy, as those who are married with children and that it is alright for women to be selfish and aspire to live their lives for them and not society or anyone else."

Draft Project Proposal ♥

"For My consolidated Project I have 2 rough idea’s as to what I would like and enjoy doing. My first idea would be to look at, in a fine art and perhaps fashion way, my boyfriend’s current situation as an Iranian asylum seeker living in England. I want to look at his struggles and achievements as a young man living in a foreign country. His struggles being not seeing his family for the past 2 ½ years, especially his father who is ill, and missing them. Trying to fit into a society that has perceived conceptions about him because of the way he looks, the way he speaks, his nationality, religion etc. Also I would like to focus on myself and the struggles I have in my mind at being with a foreign man and knowing my father’s opinions on the relationship are negative, the general thought society would have on our relationship from what we read in magazines, about foreign men marrying English women to for visa’s. And also my own worry on what would happen if he didn’t receive asylum in this country.

My other idea would be to do something based on Paris because I am in love with this city. Perhaps visit Paris with a stronger idea and photograph over there. I was thinking i could look at my own questioning on why i love this city so much. Do I love it so much because i spent time there with my ex partner and have fond and beautiful memories from being in this perfect place, having a perfect time with someone I loved, or just because I have a great feeling about Parisian things, places, buildings, the city’s lifestyle. Maybe going back would be a good time to figure this out. Perhaps re visiting places I went with my ex to see if the feeling is the same or maybe I would just be constantly coming across emotional landmines. If not visiting Paris then maybe I could do something more graphic design that incorporates photography. Perhaps producing postcards but with a twist that also looks at the emotional side of why I love Paris so much. I could use old photographs I took while I was over there. Somewhere I still have all the tickets from various places we visited, and other memorabilia.

For my first idea I would research previous artists that have looked at similar situations. Artists that have focused on race and religion in their images. For my second idea I would research Paris. I would look at Parisian photographs and artists that have photographed Paris. Also artists who look at relationships and break up’s within their work.
I think it would be interesting for me to work with a different camera media than I have previously used. I have been keen to experiment with Polaroid recently. I think it would work well with either idea. The first being that we relate Polaroid to snapshots of reality and life and the second how Polaroid’s can be used to symbolise a happy memory that was captured in a single moment and frozen.

I would also love to try out using different materials to print my images onto instead of just photography paper. I think glass would be a great option for my first idea, representing my boyfriend’s fragile life which could be broken and shattered at any moment. It could also work well with my second idea of Paris being beautiful yet fragile memories I have. Memories that are now very transparent and see-through. Etc. However I would need to research how possible this idea would be to create.

I also would love to focus on texture and colour within the images i will produce, in a very fine art and abstract way. Either idea, I want to look at and focus on something that is personal to me. I like to express myself through photography and projects. I like my images to have lots of concept and create lots of ideas and feelings for the viewers. My ideas are still very ‘on the surface’ at this moment in time. That is why I haven’t been able to go in depth about size, shape, how I will present them what equipment I will be using, so on."