For the second set of words I started by deconstruction them individually.

For the word pride I wrote related words like victory and achievement, I wrote about how flags are a symbol for pride, flags can represent country’s, political ideologies or groups of people. 

For the word arrogance I wrote that it meant when some one will not change their mind and there think they are all ways right, I found that thrown’s and crowns can represent someone thinking there are above other people, all so the symbol off a megaphone can symbolise someone drowning out other peoples voices. 

For the final word humility which is the inverse of arrogance I wrote that it means you listen to others opinion and have a low sense of importance, a symbol for humility could be someone praying as person believes they are lower then god, other symbolise can be someone raise they hat or someone lending another person a open hand. 

For the second set of words I was interested having flags as the focus point and having a flag that is a metaphor for each word, and all the flags would be graphic images oppose to colours and abstract shapes which flags normally are.

My tutor suggested to look in to Asafo flags which were made by the people of the Golden Coast which is now the country of Ghana, they made the flags to represent their loyalty to the British empire.

In this video from a creator from the Tate museum he described the ports in the golden coast having hundreds of these flags. 

I made scratches of six flags two for each word, a flag that had a generic geographical area, a flag that had a man in a suit with a crown, a man praying, a flag with six little flags inside, a flag with a microphone and a flag of a man raising his hat. When reflecting on these drawings I thought that these outcomes had to be 3D because a 2D image of a flag can’t capture the feeling of what a flag represents. 

I started by getting some pattered fabric and painting it white, then a painted on with acrylic paint the concept for each one. 

When reflecting on these the photos I took of them I thought that the flags worked well together and had a sense of playfulness. On the other hand I thought the flags are flimsy and the paint made the fabric to stiff so they couldn’t flow around like real flags, also when I photographed the flags it was hard to get them all in frame and in focus.

After tacking the photos I dissuaded to scrap the drawings on the flags and make an outcome that would incorporate video, I thought of having three videos next to each other which had flags in them and each video would be a metaphor for each word. 

The first the video is of my dads union jack which represents pride, it is taken from below which gives it importance, I all so tinted the colour yellow to give it a nostalgic feel.

The second video which represents arrogance is of someone throwing an American flag at someone else’s face as they are trying to do some laptop work, the American flag was chosen because it has so much significants as it is the most powerful country. the flag is so big that it  doesn’t even fit in the frame and its bright colours stand out in the white room. If I were to film the video again I would put the camera on a tripod so it dint move with the flag.

The third video represents humility it is of a tiny flag which is coming out of the pavement, in the clip a man walks by and doesn’t notice it, a tinted the video blue so it would make the rainy wether more pronounced, the bad wether, rain coat, and wellington boots in the video all tie in to the theme of Englishness, as you can say that humility is a tradition English trait.

I stated by deconstructing the the first sets of words.

For the word threat I found wrote down related words like pain, injury, damage and death. I then drew. the overuse symbols for like exclamation points, skulls and the colour red.

When researching the word bravery I found that medals are a common way Bravery is symbolised, also I found a graphic image of a some one parachuting which I liked and wanted to incorporate in to my work, I liked the image because of how simple and how it has the same style as the universal recognisable signs you get in hostels and construction sites.

For the word Safety I took picture of some universal signs on public transport, for signs that tell people to do mandatory things to insure they safety their use the colour blue, like signs telling people too were hard hats or high vis jackets. Signs that are green tell people that things are safe or where to get to safe places.

I made a Walter cooler image with a red circle with an exclamation point for danger, a yellow square with the parachuting man inside and a triangle with the universal fire exit sign. When reflecting on this piece I thought that Walter colour can not properly represent the boldness of the universal signs as the colour is thicker in some places and lightly in others, the yellow colour was especially weak.

I made another Walter colour pice which had traffic lights with a skull and crossbones in the red light, a medal in the orange light and a green cross in the green. On reflection on this pice I thought it was boring and having traffic lights as a motive is overused and clinched.

I then had the Idea of mixing the visuals of the medals and the universal signs, This concept I found more interesting then the traffic lights. 

I started making the medals out of cut out card and that looked bolder then painting them. 

I think the images in the medals look cute (Evan the skull) because of how there are a bit uneven and have soft edges.

To photography the medals I put them on a high-vis jacket, this suggests the narrative of someone being given them as award for working on a construction site.

If I spend more time on these out comes I might have scanned the medals and printed them on paper and laminated them as you get lots of laminated posters on construction sites.

Did you complete the 100 things task?

i did and it took till 2 hours.

Is your research from a variety of sources?

i have gavered research from the internet and i have collected photos of instruction al signs from public places. next i am going to try and find a book from the university library which will have information about symbolisms and metaphor.

Do you have enough research material to generate good ideas?

yes by taking images of symbols and combining them with the other things has led to many different creative possibilites.

Did you incounter any issues gathering research information?

i found it hard to find lectures on the internet about symbolism and metaphor that are relevant to my work because the way they talk about the subject is to abstract.

What experimentation have you done so far?

i have tried to recreate the signs by cutting in to card, i intend to paint on cloth and make some flags in the next couple days.

How have you testing your ideas?

By making a verity of thumbnail scathes then choosing which is the best and making it in two lager pieces.

Symbolism

Symbolism is used in story telling to represent complex or abstract ideas in to simple things. For  example a dove can represent peace and roses represent love. 

Evan more simple things like colours can be symbolic some times the same colour can represent negative and positive ideas, like red representing blood, danger, love, romance and passion. Green symbolises  growth, the earth safety, greed and envy. White can represent Purity, goodness, coldness, unfriendliness.

Metaphor

People uses Metaphors in written language when someone writes that one thing is another thing, for example… 

“War is hell” -William Tecumseh Sherman

“Education is the kindling of a flame” -Socrates

5th Oct 21

In the Ditchling museum there is a display that shows the creative process for a book called The Giant Jam Sandwich, it has a block of text that details Vernon talking about his child hood memories of eating jam sandwiches at picnics and using unwanted bits of sandwich to draw away attention from wasps. 

I like how these stories help make his work more relatable as very one can relate to having pickings in parks and avoiding wasps also the symbol of jam sandwich is very English and also working class as it is cheep 

In the cabinet are some rough thumbnail sketches of Vernon’s plan for his book, next to them there are some more refined pencil drawings of each page, on these pages you can see the outline of what’s on the other side, also there are random spots of colour. I think The messiness in the drawings makes the viewer understand Vernon’s excitement for telling this story.

In the museum there is also is a big soft jam sandwich that kids can play on, it is made in response to the book by an artist called Emma Carlow, Out of all the things in the museum the big jam sandwich is the most stacking because of its size. 

It invites the viewers to interact with it as there are some cloth wasp wings kids can wear as they jump on the bread and play out the story, the sandwich also has some smaller drops of jam doted around makes the piece less static and gives it life.

it’s interesting to look at the textures of the sandwich and compare it to a real sandwich, the bread part is shiny and smooth, this is contrasted with the jam which is made of fabric, it is strange when you touch the jam and it is sold and not sticky. 

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Sep 21

In todays class we had to draw someone how was in front of us with out looking at the page, All the drawings that were produced looked very abstract.

When I draw the person in front of my I tried brake the drawing down by Drawing the darkest part of them (like hair or clothes) with the ink then drawing the rest with of the figure with a pen.

I have concluded that the task is about all about the proses and less about the final pice, the task made me do pen marks that were very free and loose, tasks like these make make my drawing bolder when I draw normally. 

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