Week 9

Week 9

28^th September – 2^nd October

This week I was following on from my summer work and trying to develop a few of my ideas for this project. I brought my drawings into the studio so I could photo copy and manipulate them. I want to see how much I have to do to these drawings that I no longer recognise myself in them. This is what I was trying to investigate this week. I removed all the identifying features I associate myself most with, the two main ones being my glasses and my hair. If I was in Auschwitz I would have been able to keep neither and there would be nothing recognizably me left. It did experiment with colour papers I had dyed, as I wanted to try and make my personality shine through like a woman I saw in Auschwitz smiling in her picture. No family no hope of survival and living in a death camp but still smiling in her picture, letting her personality shine through. Something that people can never take away from you, your personality and spirit. I didn’t like the segmented drawings with the colour but I do like the drawings themselves I’m sure I can develop them further.  This idea of identity is something I can definitely explore in a range of media and materials