Tuesday 8 October 2013

initial hand drawings

As i stated before , i do quite like the idea of writing words onto hands, words including - hope, love , compassion, respect etc


it wasn't really inspiring me enough
, so i began to think of what else i could possibly do with hands.




I came across this image , and thought it could be interesting to create my own letters using my own hands to create the words stated above.

Ideas started to bounce about in my head, and now was thinking along the lines of image manipulation and creating stencils with the hand images, so at first glance they may not appear so as hands......

Lastest brief - world AIDS day art competition

Newest brief - subject - HIV, Alive and Well

we have been approached to create a artwork within this subject, portraying a positive image. As the virus can be tackled more openly in modern days, more people are living and leading normal every day lives.


Research - what the virus is and what it can do the human body and mind, possibly online blogs from real people with the virus asking advice or sharing general
stories on how they cope with things, and it interests me to start a facebook discussion with people my own age to see their opinions on people with the virus. Also investigating into the exhibition space where our artworks can possibly be displayed and get a better understanding of how it could look.

Thoughts/Development - I want to explore the medium of photography, portraits and photographing hands was my initial thought, the idea of combining text with hands , and creating words using hands could make quite interesting imagery, making stencils with the photographs i take first hand, and editing them on photoshop, then onto preparing them to be used with combining light.

Photos of progress will be uploaded soon!