Due to unforeseen complications at home I was unable to attend the show in London. I was extremely disappointed but these things cant be helped and so I am looking forward to the end of year show in Birmingham. I have however carried on with my work whilst the others were showing. I'm still loving the idea of boxes and I'm thinking about hanging them or sticking them in a line and having to either open them or look through something to see the image. The only problem with hanging them will be the weight of the boxes themselves. I'm sure that i will be able to sort that out quite easily though.

Boxes

I have finally got around to making the boxes and i think that they look pretty good. all i need to do now is make the images 3d to put inside of them. here is the guilt image in a box but without the background and i have tweeked it slightly by adding text but havent yet got it 3d (i will have shortly though). i like the idea of having to look through a gap to see the image and that you cant automatically see it. this means that the audience will have to interact with my piece to see it.

Same idea, different direction

After some consideration over my final piece i realised that i was having real trouble visually representing my ideas. I came to the conclusion that i wanted to keep the idea of people hiding things away and pushing them to the backs of their minds and the idea of people keeping things in boxes......so the direction that im now going to take is, taking the thing that the person wants to hide away and making it into a scenario. Then putting them into hinged boxes that people will have to open to see what is inside.

this was the piece of work that i handed in and although it did take a lot of time to produce i feel that it doesn't represent me properly. I like print work and i feel i need to be making a body of work that shows this. As i have looked at other designers work i feel that i need to incorporate their work with my style and keep to the images or ideas that i have already come up with.

mock ups

after alot of thought i decided that the overall production of my fmp would look much better if i used cardboard boxes. The idea now is to use the images on the boxes. I wanted the boxes to look used and a bit 'battered' and i stuck the images on the boxes to look like an address sticker. I thought that it looks quite effective with the brown tape over the top of the image but didnt work so well with the fragile stickers. I like the image of the hand that i tried to incorporate a word on to although it was a bit small. Im going to try out printing the image straight onto the box itself and also use brown and white boxes. The idea behind using the box is that after explaining my idea to a range of people they thought the best way of protraying the shuting away of feelings, emotions etc would be to use a box. still busy busy....