Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Style block

After Christmas I went through a period where I really had no idea where to go with my style project. I had been making various series of work based on style for a while and got in the habit of working on a smaller and smaller scale, I was taking my own model photos but didn't really know what to do with them. I was continuing making series of work but it felt very repetitive, like I was just repeating what I did earlier in the year. I started to focus more on my narrative work while I kept the direction of my style project in the back of my mind. One day I realised a simple solution to do something different would be to make some big work based around style. This lead to me just doing some relatively quick A1 drawings of a few of my photos in various different ways. I didn't really know where the work was going but it was enough to get me out of my rut. The work I made was alright but a little boring, there wasn't much to them. The works were too big to work in a series, and as I always mention work always works better in a series. Anyway this work was different enough to allow me to think of other possibilities I could take with this project. This includes ideas similar to ones I've already done which I was avoiding at first because of repetitiveness, I now feel I can go back to these ideas and feel like I'm developing them rather than repeating them.

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