So like, I'm a Printer now and stuff...

So after a whole pile of freaking out and thoughts of "What the hell am I going to do with my life?!" I finally found out that I got into Print!  Was frickin delighted because I had begun to have some serious doubts about whether i'd get the marks needed for a place.  On the day that the results were out I couldnt even go to find out so waited for Ms. Lauren Wilmot to ring me with my results....only to hear "Oh i've really bad news for you Ange, this is totes awks.."  She kept me in the dark for ages before telling me I got into Print...the woman is supposed to be my BFF, but she's a cunt :P

Anyways off into Print I went where we were given the brief of "Notion's of Identity".  A pretty broad brief which has it's pros and cons.  When a brief like that is so broad it can be hard to focus on a particular area so a hell of a lot of brainstorming had to be done!

My initial thoughts whilst brainstorming were to focus on Athea, a village near where i'm from but to give it a universal meaning so anyone could relate to it.  Athea is a pretty place but it has a bad name.  I myself never say i'm from there as it's not the best place in the world to be associated with...a thing i know that the likes of Damien Ahern will attack me over!!

On starting to draw my ideas, I focused on the nice aspects of the village and also the bad.  but this was not just about Athea, I wanted to show how the good and bad in society make up the identity of a town, city or village.

The Goold Momument

Flower outside the Library Window

But this idea dried up pretty quickly.  I liked drawing the images but I couldnt see myself sticking with it long enough to get a whole series of Prints out of it.  For the first part of the project, I'm focusing on Collographs which are a lot to do with texture so twas back to the drawing board for another brainstorming session!

For my next idea, which is the one I'm going to focus on, I started to look at marks and scars and how they become a part of a person's identity.  Each mark or scar has a story to it, whether it be something simple like memories from childhood where you scrope your knees or something more serious like self-harming, they all have some meaning to them.

I myself have scars from burns and an unfortunate event when i was 8 and slid under a wardrobe, slicing the skin on my leg off like a rasher ...but they're not as prominent like other's scars so I had to go on the hunt for what I wanted.  So whilst slightly under the influence on Paddy's Day, I told a number of people that I promised I wasnt a freak but if they had scars could I take some photos of them...and thankfully many obliged!

I also wanted to include prints of things that would give you scars....as in if you were in a car crash so tyres could show this or self harming with a knife etc.

So now I just have to start printing.  Because I've restarted my ideas and stuff, I'm pretty delayed with the whole printing.  But hopefully I will get all the ones I want done before next Friday's Easter Assessment!