PEER CRIT WITH LUCY
After the group crit on Tuesday, I was left feeling a bit stuck, I hadn't really made the connection that my illustrations were merely illustrating a selection of things rather than a practice and so all the ideas I had had seemed flawed. I fell out with the project for a bit as I had been really excited about the possible responses I had devised previously but have now had to re-assess them. This called for some Lucy support.
We worked through some key ideas and questions that could drive my interpretation of the brief and my interpretation of my own practice more specifically.
THINGS TO CONSIDER:
- Think about relevance of objects
- How would somebody who doesn't know you're practice read your image?
- How can an object demonstrate your creative concerns?
- Which elements are most relevant - narrow down to key words.
- Authenticity
- Romantic ideals
- Innocence
- Storytelling
- Playful
- Craft
- Learning
- Nostalgia
These key words seem to be the most pivotal to my creative concerns and seem most commonly to inform my visual language. I have searched for the official definitions of some of these words to help me un-pin these elements of my practice.
Authenticity
-genuine; real
-representing one's true nature or beliefs
-having an origin supported by unquestionable evidence
Romantic
-imbued with or dominated by idealism and a desire for adventure
-fanciful; impractical
-rose-tinted; seeing the pleasant parts of it
Craft
-skill/ dexterity
-manual skills - time and thought
From simply breaking down the issues that most inform my practice, I have grasped the elements key to me. Idealism and a fanciful view of society seems accurate in my identification of working class traditions as I seem to celebrate only the positive aspects of the restricted ways of living. Similarly, the representation of something that is true to itself is also important to me, communicating things that are organic and ingrained in tradition. Authenticity also seems evident in my approach to craft, investing time in my image making to create a unique outcome.
Potential visual devices:
- toy town - nostalgic/ playful/ relevant to children's illustration intentions
- book - related to intent for practice/ nostalgic object/ object of treasure/ learning
- building blocks - tool for learning/ nostalgic and basic toy/ children's play context/ image of building and gentrification yet restricted and primitive
Moving forward I am really interested to explore this idea of children's building blocks as a visual metaphor for my practice. Their simple shapes will enable me to further the shape based collage work I have been enjoying, but also serves metaphorically to demonstrate a building and developing practice. It could be appropriate to explore character and how characters interact with these blocks, exploring a sense of community. The imagery of wooden building blocks also seems nostalgic of basic children's toys and also a playful interpretation of the issue of gentrification.
Carrying out a one on one peer crit like this has really helped me to de-code the task and identify how it is that my practice could answer this brief. I am now prepared to move forward with my visual research and explore the motif of building blocks and books to capture my emerging practice.
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