2.2.2. Side by Side.

This week I have focussed on the idea of capturing a moment, Working with long exposure and shutter speed, to capture movement and shape. Editing the pictures to see the lines of movement and struggle. Thus perpetuating the idea of mental struggle and insanity, the idea of being stuck within yourself with no escape from thoughts, challenging perspectives of visual attitudes, pulling out the strongest colours of the pictures, working with the marks they create in the image, distorting the body, morphing and stretching. With all that I found that to keep things moving I need to change location or background of my focus so that things aren't so similar with each image I use. 
To develop further I intend employ new approaches, to create distortion with different angles, working with a scanner to stretch and morph images, to create a different kind of mark, to evolve new imagery.

Helen Lawrence, Google images.

With the Live Project, I have chosen the 'Branding Project', with 'Natural Forms' as the concept.

The brand I am directing my work towards is ' Helen Lawrence'. Lawrence's work is a play on texture and transparency along with child's play in learning to colour. In reflection of my brand choice I know that I need to do a lot of reattach to gain more understanding of the brand in order to capture the essence of style. 

My main concept will be the formation of patterns which occur in nature, piecing together different aspects of the beach, bringing out a softer side to my work through incorporating lighter toned yarns to replicate calmness, together with the sharpness and unpredictability of the shoreline.

I feel my choice of brand and concept work well together, complimenting and contrasting each other, bringing nature and human influence over calm & storm, water & earth, light & dark together.

2.2.1. Initial Concept.

What sparked my inspiration for my initial concept was frost encasing an object in the winter and from there the concept of something being trapped or captured intrigued me.
After doing a mind map on Trap/Capture and conversations in my tutorial I discovered that rather than just looking at things being encased and growing or being trapped and suffering, I needed to narrow my focus on one or the other in order to move my development of ideas forward.

I chose to go with trapping and suffering, being trapped in a moment. The concept of this led me to think about key words, the idea of struggle, constraint, confinement, entanglement, being bound by, restriction, been forced against ones will, stuck in a moment and repetition all intrigued me. Which moved my ideas forward to how I would translate my found imagery and research into my sketch book. After much thought I decided to focus on a specific section of the research images I have collected. To start my initial drawings I considered pulling out the strongest fluid patterns to the forefront of colour pallet within the images to show the struggle of entrapment. Hopefully with the media and marks I make I can bring the emotion of trapping and suffering to the pages of my sketch book.

I want to spend this week working on pulling together ideas, colours and my concept. Exploring the many paths and possibilities that my concept can take me on so that I am not too restricted and find the right path for my work. I found that my Pinterest has been a good tool for this.