final piece..

this picture is pretty poor but I have better ones saved. I'm pretty happy with my final piece with the frames. I feel the images are a bit too small for the background but that's something I could change towards the preparation for the exhibition..

George Adeagbo

I looked at this installation artist, George Adeagbo, he uses real objects to re live his story though this old objects and photos. This is the direction I want to go into for my final presentation.

more research

I've watched these videos again to help me write the little slip of text I will be putting in the photo frames..

Frames

Today I am starting to put together my frames. I feel that if I put drawings of the different trends in the frames alone against the wallpaper it will be a bit confusing the audience. so I experimented with tracing paper and my typewriter to put a little description to help direct the viewer and i feel it works quite well.

finished wallpaper

Im really proud of my wallpaper and probably the best thing I have done all year. I have tested the photo frames against this and they go together really well. All I have to do now is to create the illustrations to go inside them. I was thinking of extending the installation by adding a shelf and objects like old books and anything else to round up the scene.

influence?

I really love the story of the east end gangsters The Kray twins. I remember a clip from the film when they both stand in their living room talking to their mother violet. I really love that interior and I see the link with some the research I have done on the teddy boys. I want my final piece to have that feel from the film using my my photo frames etc.

Etching and screen printing fun

These past two days, I have been pretty productive on the printing front. Monday I managed to attend an etching workshop where I produced a plate of a Teddy Boy combing his hair and the prints were pretty successful! I set out to create this fading image and I tried this out and it works okay but probably best with the screen prints. here are my examples..

Today, I attended the screen printing workshop where I created the images below. After testing a few of these out, I felt that if I proceeded to make wallpaper it will be really successful. My idea is to buy plain (hopefully, second hand) wallpaper to print this pattern on and then staple to a wall. If all fails, I will print on brown wrapping paper or card. This all adds to the my idea of memories, fashion and history.

After talking to people, they mentioned that the frames I bought look as though they held family photos in the past. This I feel links to the trends makers' history. For example, teddy boys were created during the blitz, it was their way of creating their own family within friends that dressed like them and saw the world through the same eyes. This applies to the punks, mods... their own family away from relatives.