T, D+P Review

At the start of the project I explored various possible sub topics. I went to Highgate cemetery to take some photos, originally thinking about exploring how the people that are buried there have shaped the society we live in today. However during my first tutorial it was brought to my attention that the images showed a cemetery that was becoming overgrown, leading to the destruction of many of the gravestones. I therefore decided to focus on how nature might take over human environments and visa versa or how we might be able to live in a world where humans and nature can coexist. My initial ideas included visually representing this by layering both photographic and illustrative images on Photoshop. After being introduced to print mak- ing, I realised I could do this through screen printing, experimenting with merging an image

of a brick wall with tree branches. I also aimed to recreate one of my images from Highgate cemetery using both the lino and intaglio printing methods but after complications, I ended up putting the separate prints together on Photoshop. For my last workshop I did Animation which I found to be very useful in representing my ideas. I used Photoshop to create an animation of a city gradually building on a leaf. Moving image helped me to visually communicate how the development of an urban environment over time might destroy the surrounding landscape. Although it was quite a simple animation, this method was very new to me and I was proud of the outcome.

As the final animation took a considerable amount of time and effort I would consider this to be my final outcome. However as I discussed with one of the tutors in my tutorial it doesn't completely fulfil the aim of the project and adhere to the given concept. Although it obviously considers with natural and human elements in our society, it doesn't show the impact of this increased human activity on the nature. This is true for the project as a whole as I should have probably focused more clearly on a definite message that I wanted to communicate, rather than experimenting with different imagery that ultimately portrayed different messages throughout the whole project. For the next project I will aim to come up with a more definite direction earlier on in my development, making the message of the final piece set to a specific concept.