.  As a result of the scrappy finish of the french fold and swatch book, I created a concertina and redeveloped the imagery – therefore it looked neater, whilst the imagery also evoked more of a decay aesthetic portraying my Grandma’s disintegration as a person. I also used my grandma’s handwriting so that it clearly represented […]

I opted to choose the theme ‘If walls Could Talk’. I explored the theme as a metaphor for mutism, as walls cannot talk. I related to this my grandma, who due to dementia and a language barrier cannot communicate. I researched into various wallpaper booklets in order to inspire a book experimentation. I firstly experimented with a […]

I created a series of GIFs to add dynamic to the work, and to animate the ‘talk(ing)’ of the walls. I did this by covering a subject’s face in wallpaper so that only the human animated talking features were exposed, and taking photos of the talking action to form a GIF. I literally experimented covering up […]