"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."
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