When Worlds Collide Brief

The new brief, which runs for FIVE WEEKS, is titled ‘When Worlds Collide’ and looks incredible. We have been given two lists and are asked to pick a topic from each. The topics range from being pretty basic to being quite obscure- from teletubbies to feminism, and mexican wrestlers to folk tales there’s a lot of scope for potential combinations.

When choosing my two topics, I took into consideration how I’ve been feeling about the course recently. I am loving all of the experimental work and have created some pieces I am really proud of that have pushed me far out of my comfort zone. But whilst I want to continue this experimentation, I also want to explore what has brought me here in the first place. I want to create some more complex pieces and indulge myself in some time to do some drawing and painting. I want to regain some of the confidence in my work that I used to have.

So, in order to do this, on the back of a conversation I had with Claire I had in my tutorial, I chose Birds as my first category. Birds are something I love drawing, but whilst I feel they inspire me I don’t feel they are particularly challenging and after thinking about it a little, I decided also that I didn’t want to box myself into my comfort zone. Buildings, however, are things I have actively fled from tackling in my artwork. So, naturally, I’ve taken a topic rooted firmly in my comfort zone to contrast it with one so far out of my comfort zone in hope that could spark some interesting ideas.

With that I have decided upon Birds and Architecture! I am hoping that even if I hit a wall tackling architecture, my love of birds will bring the project back to life. I want to approach this topic as an exploration of technique, as it’s the last project of the first term I think it would be a nice homage to the course to try and incorporate everything that I have learned into this project. But we shall see!