I experimented with cut outs from a magazine making collages. I found a bright, funky pattern to use in the background and experimented with ripping some edges whilst cutting others. I also cut a figure out of a page and stuck the background and figure in different places. I used lots of layering.
I also experimented with handwritten text and how it can be interpreted differently. For example I used red writing to show death. I also experimented with making key words stand out by making them bigger, bolder and underlining it. All this text is from an article I studied which was about a shooting in Kilburn.
We had to find ten images that linked to our article, then we made a collage type piece using our images by cutting and sticking them in, drawing them or painting over them. A lot of my images represented death, for example the flowers, skull and the gun. I used a lot of red to represent blood.
We then used all the work we had already done with the text and the collage to make a book. We practiced making different types of books first and I decided that the Concertina book was my favourite so I used that one. I stuck bits of my text onto my collage then cut my collage up into A6 pieces to stick into my book. I edited my book by making collage writing from magazines whilst keeping to my colour theme of black, white and red. I then splattered ink on a few pages to decorate it and give effect.
M/M (Paris) was a big influence of mine as their work had meaning to it when you look carefully at the text and images, and they use a lot of black and white which was in my colour theme for my own project. I found their work really interesting as it was original and they used a lot of negative space where needed.
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