For the Journey project I decided to focus on photography,
as the images gave me plenty to work from and also through taking the photos
they showed a journey themselves. I used my photos from travelling around
Indonesia, a walk around Leicester, and a journey to an old train station. I
used a mixture of photos and videos for these and used them as a starting
point. I then began to look at collage artists such as Mark Bradford, who used
images, things he found and other different materials, to create large collages.
This inspired me to use my photographs and experiment with painting over the
top. I started drawing head shots of children’s faces from Indonesia, mainly
images of them with a blank expression, then painting them over the top of
collages of photos. I think this could have worked better if I made the
backgrounds more textured and the portraits more detailed. I wanted my work to
represent what you see/what you miss when you are out, people who you don’t
know and what their stories may be.
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