Passage of time

Recording:

Over the christmas we were asked to carry out a project communicating the idea of time. When reading the brief I instantly had sevral ideas come to mind on how time could be represented. In a negative tone I came up with the idea of representing time as a very precious thing that should not be wasted, as many people these days waste time for the sake of not wanting to do anything. Because of this I knew that my final outcome would result in being something very emotive and thought provoking especially in the eyes of my peers. Experimenting with photographs of eye was one of my first ideas, in that the eyes see so much over the course of a human life that it could almost be looked at as a memory bank. In addition to this I felt that the use of silhouettes would accompany the photograph of the eye very well as they did not have any detail you had to pay attention to yet still showed clearly what was happening in each image. Using these silhouettes I experimented with the colour of the eye photograph and eventually came to a point where just the colour of the pupil of the eye was visible in blue whilst the rest was black and white. In this instance it reflected how a human eye would have the colour fade after time run out whilst having the main events of that persons lifetime being remembered in silhouette form. (Wedding, birth, death)

Reflecting:
Over the course of the 4 days that I worked on this project I found that this project could have much more done to make it even better. Even though I liked the outcome iof the eye losing its colour due to death and remembering flashbacks I felt it could be taken further. Through this I thought that I could relate the project directly to myself and teenagers in general. This idea being how as children growing up would create bad habits such as drinking or even drugs in some case and how the younger self would view us if they were to see themselves in the future. At this point I found that experimenting with paper to make it look old could also be quite effective along with a mirror which would act as 'the looking glass self' to see your own future version. Experimenting with this I also found that it would make it look like an ol;d relic due to the effect of the paper which could further illustrate the passage of time.

Contextualising:

When looking at contextual research examples for this project unfortunately I had struggled to find anyone that would be very influential in my work. However a current artist known as Inquisitive was very influential in the style that I wanted the illustration to look like. In this case I had therefore decided that this would be my main influnce throughout the project.