After producing the image of me looking like I was trapped and frozen I decided to recreate it with flowers. I wanted to compare the two – comparing self portraiture with nature, and when presenting these images would pair them together. Linking back to the title of the work ‘We are merely here’, I wanted …
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Test Images – Frozen/Trapped
I thought of emotions and feelings that come with suffering from a mental illness and straight away thought of the idea of being trapped. I created the images above by laying under water and placing perspex over the top. I wanted the perspex to be clear at first, but after it started steaming up I …
Coming self portraiture with nature
I previously looked at experimenting with piecing multiple images together to create an independent piece of art work. This was something that at the time I did find interesting but mostly looked at combining images with text, however I now want to look at this idea of combining nature with self portraits. Above is some …
Initial ideas
I produced a basic mind map to display my initial ideas for the resit. My previous project for me lacked meaning and therefore wasn’t a strong concept by the end. I think a big part of this was because it didn’t have a title. By giving it a title I feel that it gives the …
Final Project Resit
After failing the module, I will continue to work on the ideas I was already exploring however change and work on some of the parts of the module which didn’t work. However, due to Covid-19 and lockdown I am unable to shoot outside as much as I had initially planned when resisting this module and …
Evaluation Essay
My intention for the project was to highlight the issue of mental health, and more specifically represent what it feels like to suffer with social anxiety. This is a topic that has run through my MA course as I have a personal connection to the issue. Suffering with social anxiety myself I wanted to use …
Final Photo’s
Below are the ten final photos I have chosen for my project:
Final Project
Above is my finished video for the project. The intention for the video was to be displayed in a gallery setting along with the photos, with the audience not necessarily watching the whole video but a section and then moving on. For this reason the video can appear quite receptive when viewed on it’s own, …
Mounting Photos
I decided to mount the photos onto foam board, which for me provided the physical support to make the photos look more sturdy and professional, whilst still being in budget. Each image was placed onto the board and then trimmed to remove the white boarders, which enhanced the images and made them pop.
Final Photos – Print
I decided to print ten photos at A1. I settled on printing ten photos as I felt that this represented the idea of mental health well enough without the work getting repetitive. I didn’t want to weaken the work by producing to many images as I felt with this project it was about what each …
Final Major Project Kirsty Powell 