IDEAS

Upon having my individual tutorial with Moira yesterday, I began to formulate a few strong ideas of what I could produce as initial experimentation for this project and continuous research for this project. We came to the conclusion my work was too sophisticated to continue along the line of fairytales, and looking into consumerism as a factual subject would be much more beneficial to my portfolio. Here are my current ideas and how I plan to execute them in the forthcoming weeks before my next tutorial.

1) Discarded items made beautiful

My first conceptual ideas was focussing upon the work of Keith Arnatt and how he began his career by photographing discarded waste from rubbish dumps, but making them into artistic, painting like images surrounded by beauty in such a dismal place. I plan to begin looking at how discarded food especially, can be brought into the studio and look "marketable", rather than something we would normally walk by without a second glance. I plan to photograph bin bags, as they have a strong connotation of being rubbish, as they hold it.

2) Recycled sculptural beauty

Upon speaking with Moira, we picked up on my old hobby of knitting and sewing, as well as weaving large mats that I used to do weekly at Girl Guides. I plan to take this a step further and photographing rubbish or collected items that have been sculpted into art by myself, making it look abstract and beautiful at the same time.

3) Scanography

I have been inspired recently by the work of graduate students in Photography that Matthew and Moira has been showing us, that have used scanography, to capture moody images of objects using just a scanner. I have experimented with this when I was at college, and decided it would be a good idea to try this idea again with things that I have found.

4) Hoarding and collecting

I have been looking at how people willingly or unknowingly collect items and keep them for years, although to the common eye, these items can be seen as rubbish or unnecessary. Although this is not related significantly last project, which should have been a direct continuation onto this, it will explore how people collect items that can be perceived as rubbish to a different eye than their own.