Various Photos

 

Here are some photos I took while out and about - over a few occasions, not all in one day!

 

 

 

I incorporated babygros from a previous project.

 

 

 

I really like this photo because of the netting in particular. The wind was blowing and the net was just flapping - exposing and concealing the room it was protecting. The pattern on the netting reminds me of my daisies!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking along the street I came across this hair accessory. I had to snap it. It was completely out of place and looked lost....

 

 

Also came across this nappy (unused!) just on the street.

 

Wordsearch

 

I then went looking in to the games / activities of children and decided to make up some word search games.

 

 

 

 

 

Here are two that I went with.

 

 

I printed these up onto various surfaces, including children's t-shirts! Some of the words in them are not noticed at first glance, but are words of relevance in regards to violence.

 

 

 

 

I did drawings regarding text and incorporated them on to various prints: searchwords being one of them.

 

 

Embroidery

 

I was also looking at images that implied the violence that children have witnessed or know about. I wanted to see how to work with them and chose to bring them to life through embroidery.

 

 

I put them onto frames. I stained some of them with coffee to again imply destruction and lack of care.

 

 

I also got some teddy bears / soft toys and embroidered some daisies onto them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daisies

 

 I started researching what type of symbols are used for innocence of children / childhood, and the main one that I came across was daisies. I took some photos of them and worked with them to screen print.

 

 

 

 

 This is the final image I went with

 

 

I screened a bright yellow onto various types of paper: white fabriano, card, handmade paper and tissue paper.

 

This is the reverse of the green tissue paper. I love the way the tissue paper has soaked the ink in different areas.

 

 

I then reversed the area to be printed on photoshop and loaded the image onto the screen. I then printed the daisies in black - to imply innocence being destroyed.

Teddy in the Window

 

Next I went out taking photos in derelict buildings that I could get in to. I took some toys with me to use as props if I didn't come across any that were actually left there. I'll upload the various photos I took in a separate post, but wanted to show the photo I decided to use for the bitmap silkscreen image.

 

Firstly I printed a plain background, pale pink. I then screened the bitmap image.

I'm really happy with it.