My first encounter with the brief :

I first thought to choose this brief because I wanted to strive for something different than what I’d done in the past in my artistic journey. I always enjoyed creating a story line when it came to anything creative, however the theme of symbolism and metaphor captured my interest because I want to broaden my way of approaching a certain theme surrounding just a few words when it comes to making art according to them.

The two sets of words I chose are:

. Congested/Togetherness/Loneliness

. Pride/Arrogance/Humility

The reason as to why I chose these two specifically was because as any artist in my opinion, a lot of the time create art which we do somehow relate to on a personal level. I continued my research by firstly looking at the words themselves separately and their meanings in the dictionary, to be completely clear on what I will want to further research, in order to put a clear act of symbolic/metaphorical approach to my art pieces. I also started to jot down any artists and photos which I saw online through the media, which inspired me in terms of the style I want to go for when creating art along with the colour pallets, compositions which I think would be most appropriate.