Art&Design: Alternative Image Making. Household object.

The Brief was to choose a household object and in my notebook to generate ideas for alternative ways of image making.

Without using traditional drawing materials create my alternative images.

First of all asked myself the question .. what makes a house a home? What when i walk or think about my home is it that sparks recognition.. At first it would seem natural to think of the obvious; Kettle, toaster telly ect. However when i thought about it in more depth my thought process lead to the concept that when you step into your house, you step into a different environment. One which the roll plays of everyday life are exterminated and it is possible to be you self. This progressed on to the question, well what is that people in general do as their first steps into becoming themselves and at ease. Following out primary research made me analyse the people closest to me and others not so close. i.e next door. I'm really happy people were so honest with me, because when it is broken down it can become quite personal.

From this research i decided to base my project on the front door. And the statement that i would ask people to finish for my research would be.. When you shut your front door....

john Bland

Tracey Johnson

Laura Oliver.

(Sandra Jones did not want to be photographed.)

These here are my subjects that i have decided to base my project around ( I don't like referring to them as subjects.) all photographed at their front doors.

What i then did was to take the information that they gave me which is stated in the final piece and played with the idea of the layout of a front door. In the end they all ended up with their own little canvas.. representing them as the individual and played with the concept of hand writing( due to it being the most person font) and incorporate with the idea of the front door. and what is is when other people do when they close their front door. . For the central piece of the project, i made a letter box out of news paper ( something that comes though the letter box an and brown envelop paper) and attached parcel tags to the side for other people to write what it is they do when they walk through their front door. Interaction with the audience is a great thing to play with and something i want to experiment with further.