After running through my presentation in class on Friday, a few salient points:

• My work is looking beautiful, but not quite grotesque. I’m glad that I’m not having much trouble hitting the beauty aspect of things but the grotesque is a theme that resonates with me, so I need to push myself more for this.
• Synonyms for grotesque: strange, absurd, bizarre, monstrous, abnormal, uncanny, freakish, incongruous, weird, eerie, fantastic, ludicrous, aberrant
• It might be useful to look at the illustration style of The Nuremburg Chronicle – Astrid recommended looking at the colour palette as well as the strange people with odd body augmentations. (The Nuremburg Chronicle is an illustrated history of the world with references to biblical lore.) I’ve included some of the images here.

 

My action plan for the next week or so is something like this:

• Restructure my FYP Report outline to include all of the new references I’ve been looking at
• Gouache paintings on wood to try and evoke the sensibility of all the vintage references I’ve collected
• Continue building my story