Week 12

Day one

Over the weekend I had carried on with researching into my words and presenting them in different ways in order to represent my ideas. I carried on with this during the day. I looked more in depth into the mismatch idea, so as well as using the anges I looked at nuns. I felt by researching into nuns it represented mismatch as itnuns are a juxtaposition to prostitutes and I had learnt from my research that Jack the Ripper's victims were all prostitutes. So I used the resources in the library found some interesting images, some which focussed on corsets and that portrayed 19th century prostitutes, as this was the era Jack the Ripper was from. I like the route that I have taken for this project however today started off very slowly and I think that I struggled with getting ideas as I knew what I wanted to look at but just didn't know where to start.

Day Two

Today I found better than yesterday as I struggled less and I work through my difficulties just by planning out what I wanted to look at and how to present my ideas. In the morning I worked on my mismatch idea between nuns and prostitutes, and then for the rest of the day I was using the heat press to make samples. For these samples I was heat pressing red foil onto black satin, I really liked this technique because I think it tied in nicely with my overall them by using the black to represent hiding and conceal and then the red reminded me of blood so made it look quite violent and represented Jack the Ripper. I kept on using this technique in different ways, sometimes pressing the foil onto lace and then pealing it off to create and interesting texture. I really liked the samples I came up with and I plan on using them in my final designs.

 


After this I carried onto to develop the nun idea which then lead me to start designing. I did some quick designs first which I then developed into sixteen initial ideas, I liked my sixteen ideas I thought that I had a variety which I was ready to develop further.

Day Three

So today was the final day of the 3 words project, which ended with us presenting our work for a group critique. However before this I was finishing off my designs and with the samples I created the day before I added them on Photoshop to four of my designs. Although leading up to the critique it became apparent that I would not have enough time to finish off all sixteen designs. I was disappointed with this as I wanted to finish them off and then develop them into finals.

When going into the critique I was disappointed and was reluctant to show my work because I felt that my ideas and development were represented poorly. The group critique was interesting though as I enjoyed looking at other peoples work and seeing how they had represented their ideas and interpreted them. When I showed my work I felt that the feedback I got was mostly helpful, so when the critique had ended I was motivated to improve my work substantially as I felt that I could improve it greatly and make it a lot better.

Day Four

As the project ended yesterday I still wanted to improve my work. I feel that today I have been able to do this as I have taken another look at my sketchbook, I have rearranged and taken pieces out as well as developing my ideas even further and also improving my designs so they were less literal and represented my theme more clearly. I believe that I have done this as I am now happy with the work that I have produced.

Overall looking at this project I am pleased with the final outcome however looking at how I got to this stage I think I could improve greatly, as I found myself stuck at the beginning of the week I could have avoided this and managed my time a lot better which would have let me meet the deadline with work that was successful and of a high quality as my work had been of a low quality.