Hello everyone!
After consultation with Joy last week, I got the thumbs up for my concept and she gave me some things to think about:
- How I want my format/layout of my 4 compositions to be
2. How I can unify my 4 compositions- funnily enough, we had the same idea! To use the concept of Gulliver’s Travels in one of the composition. She also suggested using the miniature children throughout the 4 compositions to tie them all in together.
Remember my ”What’s next?’ section at the end of the Part 3 post? I will be answering and giving updates on each of the section.
- Playing around with more dingbats
Looking back on the compositions I’ve created, I’m not that satisfied with the visual outcome. I feel like it could look better and more interesting and I could push the design in terms of abstraction since I feel I already have a strong concept.
So I spent quite a while experimenting and improving my existing compositions. I noticed that I kind of used compositions from my previous concept about war. Now I realise there are links and similarities that I can draw between the two concepts. I hope that as I explore I will be able to make more connections.
The original composition:
So far I’m making good progress and will be churning out more!
2. Just to reiterate, I have decided to use all 4 lines of the nursery rhyme.
3. For my first original poem about war, I wanted to focus on my compositions having a Constructivism feel and style as it was most appropriate for my concept. Since changing it now, I feel like Dadaism would be more appropriate for my current concept, and Hannah Hoch’s style is really inspiring for my nursery rhyme.
Dadaism challenged “conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity”.
I have created my own personal checklist to keep in line with the Dada feel.
a)Nonsensical!
b)Travesty: An exaggerated or grotesque imitation, such as a parody of a literary work. Mockery, distortion, corruption.
c) Incongruity: lacking in harmony, incompatible. Not in agreement, as with principles; inconsistent:
I feel like my concept does the same. Nursery rhymes are supposed to be about mothers who love and care for the children properly, whereas my concept deconstructs the rhyme, exploring different types of mothers, each dysfunctional in their own sense. Also, in my compositions, when I represent what the children do and are surrounded by is a reflection of the type of mother they have. So I might not necessarily picture the mother there, but the environment is enough to tell the convey the story.
To think about it, Dadaism is quite an extreme form of abstraction as it will be pushing me out of my comfort zone as I am the type of person who needs things to make sense and look the part. So there will always be a tension between my inner design style and the Dada style and I have to find a balance between both. I have a feeling things will be a bit twisted. But I’m looking forward to it!
- To finalise my compositions for tomorrow’s printing (AAAAHHHHH) and put it in the format required
- To gather my thoughts and prepare my presentation for Thursday’s critque!