Transgression

Recording:
When this project began I had no idea on what I would make the transgressive subject about. However coming from a sociology background in my A-levels I had found thay Capitalism would be the perfect issue on transgressing. Looking through my old textbooks and such I found much influential topics that could be talked about and at the same time could be very controversial if looked at by others who didnt know about sociologist views. Coming from a marxist view I found that it would be perfect to illustrate how capitalism was a very bad thing for society, and yet it occured everyday under peoples noses through taxes and big corporations. Throughout the project visits to galleries had given me inspirations on using very strong colours such as reds and blacks which would connote various feelings such as hatred to the audience. When starting the project with my transgression class we were involved in a group conversation where we went very in depth into sensitive topics relating to the world and how human behaviour was changed when exploring these. In addition to this we found it very interesting on how many taboo topics had come up and as a result of this it had left some students feeling very uncomfortable with the discussion. However through this discussion many ideas had been risen on what I could potentially start to talk about when completing my final outcome which i wanted to be an illustration.

Reflecting:
Throughout the project I had found that ideas were sadly not being taken very nicely by one of the tutors. At first the idea consisted of a group effort consisting of trangressing a guy fawkes mask with various issues we had researched such as poverty and crime. As we were creating this idea and seeing the various ways it could have possibly worked out including campaigns that would have been carried out to see bystanders reactions (small scale). Through the second week 4 of us had each tackled a different issue and therefore tried progressing onto seeing what would play out the best as a final piece that we could each use. However due to us having minimal sketches and descriptions to show our idea unfortunately we were told our idea wasn't very good and that we were getting carried away with the idea therefore sadly coming apart due to others opinions. Because of this the group had disbanded and halfway through the second week we each came up with a new issue to tackle. Me sticking to capitalism as I had before the group had come together had resulted in a very bad group critique which resulted in me doing the project again. Only having one day or so to come up with an outcome my final piece for the project final day was extremely rushed and did not really have a very professional feel to it, looking more like a typical poster that street protestors would have put up. The third time I had done this project I was much happier with the outcome as it was illustration based which changed it up from my usual graphic style artwork, which embedded with a type and transgressive guy fawkes mask had created. However looking at my final illustration now i feel that my type message on the sides of the page could be white to make it stick out even more. This was due to the black looking too dark as it had showed up on the computer well however on print seemed like it was intended to be hard to see, which of course was something I couldn't have anticipated.

Contextualising:
At the start of the project a visit to the Saachi Gallery had given a very influential inspiration on how we could trangress different things. One particular artwork that consisted of blood red patterns was the main influence behind the background of my illustration. The visit provided us with many weird things to view, including a room where the floor was made entirely of oil even though we had thought it was mirrored.In addition to transgressive works at the Saachi gallery I had found that my previous visit to Gilbert and George's scapegoating pictures greatly helped me when expressing my issue. As I was looking into a very controversial topic, I found that they were very influential in helping me to come up with ways on how I could express my illustration without worrying about what judgements it would come under by others.