The Finish Line

I've reached the end of my project and with a few touches added to my final piece and an essay about what my project has been about I have completed all I needed to in the last week.

When I was writing about my project it was very helpful to have my blog and to have all my sketchbook work by my side to help me explain everything I have done. I reached a conclusion about my project when I was writing a final paragraph for my essay. My project is very much a piece itself. Since my work has been about development, change and mark making it is amazing to look back at how my ideas have developed. This makes my actual project very much part of one whole piece. Each process done, idea written down and mark made is hugely important, because all those things make up the principle reason for why I made the final piece that I made.

My project started by looking at Dieter Roth and accounts and diaries and my whole project itself has been one huge account. Time has passed, changes have been made and most importantly: Some parts of my project have been discarded or forgotten about while others have been developed, continued and made to stand out.

Finishing Piece Progress

After a few hours of working on the large piece of paper I decided to step back and take some photographs and think about what I have done.
 I chose a very powerful image from the telegraph newspaper to be my central image in black. I chose an image of a flag being taken down in a desert space in Afghanistan by two soldiers. The caption on the front page reads 'The Long War quietly ends'. Since my project has been focused on newspaper stories and world events and the way in which stories reoccur and change over time. For more than thirteen years the war in Afghanistan has been a constant in world news and especially so in British media. I believe that by blending the image of the two soldiers in with the other newspaper article images we are reminded that amongst all other world tragedies and events the war has been a constant and although the war is not over this image is a symbol of the British troops stepping out of Afghanistan. The image of a flag flying at half mast shown in this picture is also hugely powerful as it could be interpreted as a sign of respect to the servicemen and women who gave their lives for their country, it also reminds us that the journey is not completely over for many of these men and women.
I will be continuing to work into this piece but I will be making it clear that some stories stand out to me and others more than  others.

Final Piece Planning

Since I've been back at school from the Christmas holidays I have had a lot of work to do. With a final piece needing to be produced very soon I started to get straight down to it.

I realised quickly that a lot of my work and explanations have been written in my blog and less has been written in my actual sketch book. I have worked hard over the last week to confirm all my research and back up to my pieces. I think it important to work out what I want to do for my final piece and prepare thoroughly.

While I was working on my individual screen-prints I experimented with a large piece of paper and did multiple layered and single prints on it. I plan on working into this for my final piece, taking inspiration from the artists Rauschenberg and Ian McKeever. I want to bring together all aspects of my project so far.

Scale and sizes have played a big part of my project, I've spent a lot of time looking at newspapers and the variety of different scales that are used to show a range of importance within each story written about. I plan to project a newspaper image and draw on to the large piece of paper. I also plan on working with different materials and working into the image.

I am exited to see the piece gradually change, I am also interested to see what affect the development has on the original prints.

I have also been working hard to keep my wall looking exiting and different, I plan on always having ideas developing.