Gathering Materials – Visualise what you can’t see

Pictured bellow is a small selection of the materials I gathered for part two of the Composition project. I picked the theme ”visualise what you can’t see” for my next series of compositions. In my sketchbook I investigated more into this theme, and I chose to try and depict ‘the minds eye” and the study of knowledge. For an object ‘old or weathered’ I emptied out the contents of my bag and found an old Ikea cashew nut packet, I thought the bright colours of the packet would work well for spot colour in a composition. For the Abstract photography I chose a selection of the more abstract photos I had taken on a disposable camera for the ‘let there be light’ project, I also found a couple of old photos I had taken around London and printed on acetate, I thought the translucent quality of these photographs would work very well in a composition. For found imagery I chose a couple of ‘scrap prints’ from a book I picked up at pick me up graphic arts festival last year, by hate press. As these prints where scrap prints they had an elusive unfinished quality too them which I though would link well with the theme visualise what you cannot see. For the 10 hand lettered quotes, I chose 10 quotes about epistomology from a philosophy summary book called ‘I think therefore I am’ (wasn’t by Descartes was just a summary book) . I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted my ‘abstarct shapes and forms’ to look like. I decided to do some expressive line ink drawings of what I thought my minds eye mig

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