Easter holidays week One and Two

Visual Research

 

 

 

Week one..

During the Easter holidays I went to lots of different places, which inspired me within my Unit X project the first place I went to was the Whitworth art gallery which had a beautiful collection of floral patterns which somewhat reminded me of the floral pattern  on the costumes in Plat hall, however what really caught my eye was a beautiful exhibition called  “War Room” by James Copper it was a very  emotional piece, which really inspired me to  look at the meaning why  do we leave flowers for our loved ones is it because we want to capture one last moment with that person one last memory which got me to think where would be the best place to find this out?

The Second place I went to was a Grave site where many people go to capture a apart of the person they have lost I then collecting discarded flowers as I walked there was something about flowers decaying which excited me I want to incorporate flowers into my work and knit work however I am unsure how to do this yet. By going to a grave site it helped me to think more in depth about my work thinking more about the context of my work a of with I have struggled with in previous brief and am trying to improve upon.

Week Two..

                  

During the second and third week of Easter I wanted to explore flowers and there significance into my work I looked at it in a completely different light, trying to come out of my comfort zone by drawing with the actual flower to see what interesting marks it could produce I also printed with the flowers to create different textures onto the paper however I did not feel it was capturing want I wanted to I also left the flower there for a week doing a colour pallet every three day the see the range of different colours I was amazed to see how it changed over such a short period of time I felt as I have explored the flowers significance however I felt there was something missing but it was still a fun processes exploring  flowers. I have being trying to work on the points I was given from my last briefs feedback to be more selective when developing my sketch book which has been very hard as I was taught that  a sketchbook is for experimenting in college my tutor used to say “don’t bin anything away put it in your sketchbook” however I realize now that’s what my technical file is for.