Blog 7

One of Rankin's images

Today I mainly did my research report. I research into Louise Bourgeois and did also did a lot of research into Rankin. I did a page on him and what he did. I found out he does a lot of fashion photography and portraits of famous people. But he also does a lot of fine art photography and has a lot of quite disturbing images which provoke responses of shock and confusion.

I then did a page on my responses. Out of the ones I looked at I found them all quite unsettling and slightly disturbing.

I also had a chat with my teacher on where I was with my final project. I told him I was planning to stick the printed out photos on a cube or rectangle. I thought i might make it more abstract by making the shapes irregular and by adding smaller cubes coming out from the sides.

I brought in some shiny silver paper as well to make a mirror type effect on some off the faces. I think this could work quite well because it will go with the minimalistic theme which I doing and will make my piece or art more interesting and different.

I got my Photos printed out but I didn't start making my final piece today because I was hoping at least five off the seven photos I've got could be printed on A4 but unfortunately only one could because the school didn't have enough ink. So the rest of them were six to a sheet which is too small for my current idea.

At home I will either have to adjust my idea or crop and resize them and then print them myself at a shop.