Personality Project: Day Three

The book that I read about the exhibition at the barbican had a lot of photos of artists in their studios. I think look into the place someone lives or work is one of the best ways to learn about a person because whether they mean to or not everyone collects objects and we keep most of them in the places we spend the most time. Not just the things we own but also how we present them says a lot about us. Last night I took photos of my room and the many collections I own, including magazines, clothes, teddy bears and fabric. I did this because although I spend a lot of time in my room, I never really noticed how many collections I have and I think this says a lot about me. I unconsciously hoard all of these items and it's become such a habit I don't even notice that I'm doing it anymore. I would love to take photos of other people's room and see how they present the things they own and what this says about them. I think how we present them actually says a lot more about people than the actually objects we have.

Then I wrote words around the photos which described how these photos say about me. I did this to help turn these photos into a more conceptual idea, words such as unorganized, cluttered and chaotic. I want to then use these words and respond to them making fabric samples or with particular fabrics or patterns that I think represent them. I wasn't sure how I was going to use all of these ideas and turn them into a final collection. Usually it's good to not have an exact idea about what the final outcome will look like but as it's quite a short project I'm a little worried about where I'm going with this project.

I decided to go back to the beginning of my research and realized that I hadn't done any research into the photo of the speak easy in paris so I did some research on Paris in the 1920s.

By the time I got home and had thought over my project and where I was going with it I realized that I really had no idea where I was going with it and to be honest I wasn't even enjoying it anymore. So I decided to start over, got a new sketchbook and chose new objects.

I chose a post card of frida kahlo, a photo from a concert that I went to last year, a cyndi lauper cd, a photo of makeup by makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench and a photo of Josephine Baker. That night I did loads of on these themes, on the interenet, read some books I have and looked through magazines. By the end of the night I felt really confident about the research I'd done so far and I felt really happy that I decided to change the direction of my project.