Advertising

Looking at ways fashion is currently advertised I have decided that for my audience of fashion bloggers tend to look at big fashion magazines such as Vogue, Dazed an confused and Elle.
The way these magazines advertise the garemnts and accessories are now quickly adapeting to the new digital platforms such as video and photo apps and other media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.

The ink idea was derived from the research that I did into remember the dead and memories, it linked well with how memory is fades. Thus I made the ink pieces bleed out and fade into complete blackness, filling the page.

I concluded from making my video of my markmaking idea that I would use video as a form of advertising for my brand and products that have my print on by merging images of my prints with images of my theme.

However, I did not continue with this idea because I did not want to create art direction pieces and decided to go back and think what normally works for me. I decided on using this as an experience with exploring the theme of death and go to look at creating prints for fashion, as I have strong skills in working with digital prints, and it is something I enjoy most.

Developed Ink Pieces:

These pieces were developed after thinking about how I could add colour and experiment with different media. Thus I included stitch inspired by the 'skeleton' and 'scaffolding' idea from looking at burials, and also capturing shape in wool tops and then scanned.
I don't think the woll piece worked as it was hard to get the right shape and was not like ink at all.

Research

I decided to concentrate on the Decay part of death to inform my sketches, however I got stuck as I did not have anything to inform me visually to continue drawing so I created a spider diagram for Decay.

After doing further reading on Death, I managed to find out about decay in the context of linguistics; the Decay of Language, and how it has changed since language was first used and why.
The other way of looking into death is the ancient funerals and burials, and the social and representations of death.

Concluding from this week I decided that doing the decayed leaves and food idea was still too basic and needed to push the philosophies of death concept further, by researching language and rituals I can look into how people remember the dead and peserve memories relating to them.

Decay

For this week I will look into Death and what aspects of it that fascinate me. I decided to hoan in on the stages of decay and I liked the idea of layering and possibly juxtaposing life and death and apply this to the body such as skin coloured or sheer leggings.

More research needed to be done to support my concept of Death more. I have tried to further this by trying to think outside of the box when it came to death. So it is not a death of a person that I was looking at, so the fist thing that came to mind was 'Death of a Crayon' and how I would capture that as a process on paper.

From these marks I have thought about media, specifically ink. After working with it I found that it creates many different shapes as it bleeds out and fills the page. This made me think of capturing this movement, so I started to use a video camera to record it.

 

This idea then developed to a film piece concluded in this post.

Life and Death - Beginning Concept and Idea

Life and Death 

I began my project on looking at Life and Death, after being inspired by Rankin's response to his journey with coping with the recent death of his farther Alive: In the Face of Death that is available to view at the Tate and there was also a documentary about it on Channel 4.

From this research I will continue to look at death and how people remember the dead.

I wanted to explore a lot of different ways of drawing, and risk taking when it comes to line for this project so I started with a lot of spray diffuse and stencilling. I took a lot of visual inspiration from tattoos that people got to remember a death of a family member. Many of them tend to be a portrait of the deceased but also there were many roses and skulls.

Sucessful pieces:

 

I think these specific pieces really captured the look that I was going for, a faded creepy kind of skulls and neat roses that looked like they were slowly still blooming forever.

I found from doing the skull studies that they looked less comical if you take away the jaw bone so there's a less of a funny grin and more of a mystry of how there is a missing piece that potenially envokes the sense that it was lost during battle or disease.

However, I had to expand on this in terms of depth as the images of skulls and cross bones has been done numberous amount of times by artist today. The continuation of research into the theme of death looking at burials and traditions my inform more visual images that can be used. So through this decision I have dropped the idea of the skulls.