Following on from my evaluation of what a strange places is and my late deeper evaluation of what was said in my survey I decided to evaluate my thinking about the ideas I was having during my making period.
So far I have been finding strange places and then trying to illustrate them directly. However the problem I’ve been having is like when Christoph Niemann talks about illustration when you show the real thing you kill it’. By trying to make some of my images hyper realistic it takes away the character. So towards the end of the experimentation period that I just had I’ve been having a lot of fun representing strange situations and ideas of being in a strange places. Sometimes not drawing actual places at all. While most of the image I’ve done hint at certain places they are largely uncanny and strange.
I think having this period of reflection was really helpful as I have been able too start looking at how my project may have evolved from what it set out to be and weather or not my current idea is fit for purpose.
Next I plan to go back though feedback I have been given in my crits to improve foundation of research, starting with looking at literature music and philosophy.
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