Miss-leading - Research

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What came to my mind first with the theme miss-leading was irony. It can come in a general occur acne e.g. Near where I live there is a laser removal shop right next to a tattoo shop or perhaps can stem from a more fictional source such as fairytales.

A few examples of irony:

- Wicked (therete production) tells the story of the wicked witch of the west but it is miss-leading because people don't know if this is the true story.

- sleeping beauty taken sleeping pills.

- Walt Disney himself can't draw Mickey Mouse.

Vampires are scared of the dark.

- a canionball eating a cannonball. Etc...

I then asked a few people what they thought about the theme miss-leading e.g.

- everything

- weight and beauty: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Barbie girl in America)

- reflections seeing yourself differently to others

- mental illnesses

- advertising e.g. Fashion

- peoples emotions (what they say) 

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I then thought about artists that relate to this theme e.g. 

-Tracy Emin - those who suffer love

- Margaret Harrison (feminist art) the formations of what will become a fantasy 

- Anselm Kiefer (Berlin Trip) 

- Louise Bourgeois

- nancy speedo (Serpentimie) 

- Curator Beverlly knowles 

I now need to start thinking about the first idea I will develop.

Miss-leading - whitney lenox and kikyz1313 inspiration

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Figure 1

This image by Whitney Lenox reminded me of the image I was trying to portray in my interpretation using the the hands to hold the eyes. Figure 1 shown in -  Lenox,2012, xaxor.com, 

The information I researched from Cinderllea and Cinderella,1950,film and Temple,2012, http://flavorwire.com about the step sisters I have tried to develop the (peaked eyes out by pigeons/doves) to depicts the real events of the story. I thought about a more general way to depict what happen after I finished this design I thought to myself it needed to have more of a twist to it was I didn't want to portray this image in a general way like I made it out to look like.

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Other work from Kikyz1313 reflects decay (Kikyz1313, pizana,2014, hifructose.com) I gathered these images I though about creating a unquie way to show the same message as kikyz1313 as I didn't want to copy exactly her style as I was thinking about this I remembered when I was in the fashion and textiles pathway that I did a photoshoot that represents you the best I could perhaps use this for a photoshoot to depicts the original stories of the fairytales over more it would make the image look more realistic so that the audience would believe the story even more like it actually happened so miss-leading them even more.

Miss- Leading - Research 2

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For another way of showing being miss-lead, I thought about how dreams can be miss-leading as their not what they seem. 

I have had dreams or flying, naked dreams and even had a gun pointed in my face. These represent (flying) this is the dream that I had before attending Ravensbourne depicting, I need to rise above things as I have a lack of confordenice, feeling fear meaning not ready for the next step As well as (Naked dream) feeling vulnerable, exposed left without any defenses maybe hiding something and that I'm afraid that others can see right through me

(Gun: someone trying to shoot me) feeling aggression and anger port entail danger, defensive about something, looking for shelter/ protection this stemmed from a resent break up I had.

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I then researched the origanal stories of particular fairytales. 

- Cinderllea's step sisters married into the royal family but had their eyes pecked out by doves or pigeons (this in itself is misleading many versions of this story)

There was no god mother instead cinderllea planted a tree where her mother died and prayed undernieth it every day that's how the dress and shoes appeared. Etc...

- Sleeping Beauty was raped in her sleep by a king consequently got pregnant with twins, the king was married to any other women his wife tried to make him eat the babies when they were born to prove to her that he wants her and only her but instead he burned his wife and lived happily ever after with Sleeping Beauty. Etc...

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These were the starting point for the two step sisters in Cinderella. I was trying to depicts the sence where they get their eyes pecked out by pigeons/doves, for this particular sence I have used inspiration from Whitney Lenox (tattoo artist and painter) as she creates in my opinion gothic beauties this appearance also relates to the work of kikyz1313 she combinds decay and beauty to depicts a desperbing but amazing piece of art. To develop my work even further I could perhaps use these technquies to improve my work so that I could develop the same appearance and message which Lenox and Kikyz1313 does.

Book Binding

This sample was to depict e.g. Book or booklet representing mountioan. This is why the overal shape of the sample is a triangle.

This sample was one of the first samples I made. The order of the numbers show what side would the reader read first. I will try to concider this in future experiments with (soft/hard back) book binding.

This sample shows how to bind a book together with an elastic band. I felt that this is a good method of a booklet if you need a booklet in a minute. This is also the case with the booklet beside it as you just use a hole puncher on the side of the book and tie it up using a ribbon etc.. In this case thread.

After getting the gist of  using this quick method I then experimented with the different shapes I could use. As it was near valentines day I decided to made a book representing that day. I cut different sizes of hearts then layered them on top of eachother to create a colourful pattern inside. In my opinion I felt this sample looked more appealing then the otherst hat I made as the other samples looked almost the same.

I felt that the envelope sample turned out the best as I have never seen a book binding technquie that reflects an envelope before. 

I felt that I have experimented with alot of different styles from the soft binding technquies and that this would help me for furture designs.

Weather project - day 8

I felt that the layered layout fitted the them very well as the weather Intwines with eachother as the English weather is very unpredictable.

These are a series of photos reflecting me creating a hardback cooking book, I took recipes that relate to the foods representing the weather, a cooking book for the different seasons.

Overall I felt that this outcome of the cooking book could be improved as I haven had much practise with hardback binding as when I was creating the book the paper kept riping. I have developed the designs as best as I could and felt the right designs and layouts where made.

Weather Project - Day 5

I have taken these particular fruit and veg to symbolise the seasons strawberry and apple relates to summer, the cabbage relates to spring, pumpkin links to aultum and the brussel sprout links back to winter.

From the expressions I photographed before I combind them and the different fruit and veg to depicts the mood from that particular weather. Summer (strawberry/apple) hot so the expression depicts 'it's surprisingly hot. The expression for spring (cabbage) is confused wheather it is warm or cold as it can change and the pumpkin's expression show the faces which appear on Halloween and the brussel sprout (winter) relates to being upset as it is freezing.

I adapted the origanal design to link the food back to the weather conditions more, I created the brussel sprout to be black, white and grey to reflect the snow and fog. 

In my opinion I felt that these designs were too busy and that it took away some elements that related to the theme. Other developments I will try to make the designs more simplistic.