Frankie's Blog

 PREPERATION TASK For the preparation task I remade John Everett Millais' Mariana, I was inspired to remake a pre raphaelite painting as they are so beautiful and inspired mostly by nature which I thought would be easy to modernise by turning it more urban. I found this painting and related to her stance as my desk chair is VERY uncomfortable and after working I need to stretch a lot. So I remade her as an illustrator instead of a tapestry worker and changed the scenery and outfits to fit more into todays age. GROUP WORK! I formed my group with Izzy Xena and Molly, we have previously worked together on the visual essay module last year so I knew that we would make a great team!  ^ Initial ideas and notes from our first collective "meeting". We decided on recreating the Cottingley Fairies Hoax as our artefact at this stage we didn't quite know where to take it- we just knew that our aims would to be to make a new version of the hoax and to bring back the 'whimsy...

WORD AND IMAGE SUMMER WORK For our summer work and introduction to the module we were to pick a pice of prose and make a 'soundscape' influenced by it and then finally use that to create some abstract artworks. I chose the poem The Goose and The Common which is an English orally transmitted poem from the 18th century by an unknown author. I first read it in Suzanne Collin's Sunrise on the Reaping and thought that the repetition, rhyme and theme would inspire me. It's themes being that of social injustice caused by the rich taking land/privatisation of land. I only focused on a few lines of the poem to not overcomplicate it: " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours and mine." I do think my soundscape matches the atmosphere...