Film update

With time looming I have organised deadlines of production and slots to photograph and film my piece.


Though there may be little discussion on my blog about the film piece I am aware of its significance. The film will frame the project, being a documentation of the production of the net pieces sliced with footage of the nets hung up on a washing line in slow motion. The contrast of the pace will help create a dynamic to which the viewer will experience the work for all its detail.


The significance of using a washing line, is the common tradition of how it was thought important to air out your clean white nets in public as a statement of house cleanliness and wealth of which one is able to have more than one pair of net.


These initial thought will be developed once the the nets become a physical tangible material this week.

The Background

Here are the initial workings of the base pattern to which I will overlay the visual identifiers that I am identified/drawing.

NB - I must consider the weight of the lines of which my work will be vectorised with, as clarity to the viewer is important to me.

ICONS

Here are the digitalised images of my drawings for the icons that I will use on my curtain design.

 

Visual Identifiers

Earlier in the week I sent out a capture form to my peers asking for what they believed were visual metaphors for social class or status within todays society.


The list is ongoing and include what I call modern visual identifiers:

Cars, Handbags, The way you wear your handbag- on the arm/elbow, Nails fake or the way they are painted, Feng shui (however its spelt) at work your nobody if you haven't had it done...fashion yuk, Fake tan or tan in general, For Arab men-platinum (not allowed to wear gold for religious reasons),For Arab women the detailing on their abayas and their shoes (only things on show), Watches,What you drink, Where you shop (waitrose or co-op), Bling, Knives/guns, Hoods, The area you live/gang, Diamonds, Clothes that act as a uniform, Breed of dog, sovereigns, knuckle dusters, sports/ team clothing, hair gel, false nails, eyelashes, knobheads that wear shades indoors, beauty products (cosmetics, perfumes, creams etc), fur, choice of books, music and films, choice of food (organic, non fat etc), designer furniture and household goods, badges, swastikas, tatoos, the dark mark from harry potter :p, fairness in Asian societies, piercings, mowhawks, religious branding - crosses, ash (Hinduism) etc, gender based differences in clothing...


Using the list I shall try and define the eight most key identifiable items in which we associate with the two types of class I am looking at. This list will be hand drawn and vectorised for me to form a playful pattern that subverts the norm.