The Beginning

This is my first time in the world of blogging so i decided to start at the beginning of my Art work.

My first love was in photography and mostly Black and White and these tends to be my starting point with any project that i work on. from this i develop and create different pieces of work either that be 2D or 3D.

 

I have decided to start with one of my first projects which was an artist book i made based on a project called The Self. When researching for this project i came across a lot of artist. a few that come to mind was our tutor at the time Steve Mcpherson who's work "diaries" (pictured above) was beautiful. The different tones gave these pieces a wonderful, delicate sense of memories trapped in a fragile medium. these books i found fascinating with his use of found objects.

When it came to my work i also wanted to use these tones but with more a personal touch. My fist thought when thinking of myself within this project was the fact i am a avid worrier and i felt i needed to portray this. Also during this project i was reading a book about C.Jung and this theories of people having different personalities depending on there surrounding. this left me thing about another aspect of my life which is how i am perceived to different people depending who there were. i cane to the conclusion i was 5 different people into one and i used this in my work.

I decided to make a box to represent me as a whole with my five different persons inside. the lining was made from stained non silver images from the maps of places i have lived with five different segment representing my sides being. : A Daugthrer, A Friend, A Lover, A Mother and An Artist. (pictures above). I then using colours i felt represented these different sides made little worry dolls made of paper ie Red for lover and Pink for Daughter.

The material i had been given to by my mother from her doll house making days. then wrapped up with each doll was a print of a photo and letter sent to me from people who knew me best as one of these sides. ie my mum sent me a letter for my daughter side, my boyfriend sent me a letter for my lover side. i drew these into monoprints (picture below) and then srunk these and made them into non silver prints.

This project i found very revealing as it showed my what people in my life really thought of me which brought me to tears and if nothing else was a confident boost.