Briefing

Having been given the very wide brief of choosing between opposites, it allows a lot of diversity.
It has given me a massive chance to explore what i really want to. I started off by brainstorming areas i am interested in, and techniques i have always wanted to try.

I was particularly interested in working with 'tiny:massive'. i have always worked from a more large scale and challenging myself with working with the opposite could be really good for me. I decided these three opposites i would explore 'Delicacy : Crude', 'Tiny : Massive' and 'Deliberate : Coincidence'.

I want the juxtaposition and contradiction of intimate detailing versus bold images to really show through within my work, i want to explore the delicacy of materials opposite the crudeness of colour and other surfaces and techniques.

To begin my work i went to the library to source material, after looking through journals and books i had acquired a mixture of contradictory images that inspired me within my ideas. Laying them out like a mood board i could visualise areas i wanted to look into, i want to use ink and bleach and enlarging photos, taking my own images, layering images on top of material, i want my embroidery workshop to hold a strong part of the delicate side to my work, working on detailing and intimate marking.

I noticed within my research that the face was a prominant subject, having used work from marlene dumas and jenny saville it was obvious that these iconic and strong images i was interetsted in. They have a shock factor, they use colour and abnormal sizes to grab the viewers attention, using this type of method against the delicacy of some other work that i have sourced provides an interesting and contraditory view.