I Really Mean It

I Really Mean It is a brief expansion fromMake it Mean developing a proper concept and coming up with a final body of work that doesn’t only express the context to me but my audience. My final idea is to desexualise body parts. I drew some prints desexualising the body parts I found were most common. On my private girl group chat/blog I asked random girls if anyone had had an experience where their bodies had been sexualised and they didn’t want it to be.

I then decided to stick with the book Idea from the previous brief and turn some of these stories into real novels in a book. I used old mills and boon and sexy books exploring the format of the text and taking out the glamorised romance part and inserting what really happens to us women from the stories sent to me in chat and blog. I found altered books on Pinterest and youtube and started experimenting the different techniques they use. Collage, cutting, painting, glueing, pocket making etc…

I then came up with a mini series of books I made myself.

Make it Mean

Make it mean, is a brief surrounding creating a series of work that express and idea or image. We had multiple boxes of random contexts to choose from. I chose the body and started expanding ideas from there. I cam up with multiple series of works exploring desexualisation and the female gender and body parts.

I liked the idea of desexualising female body parts and body language and started drawing on books.This is what I have come up with.

I then started painting backgrounds of emotion and colour. Adding this in to start playing around with the context of the image.

I then started to break these images up showing the destruction, beauty and pain behind women and our gender. it also plays on the fact that we don’t want to be sexual ALL the time.

Expansion of Prints for Record Design

Started expanding and adding tones and textures to my prints! Also designing and developing possible backgrounds to use for the front and back cover of my record.

New series of prints

Started a new series of prints for the module “uncovered” in Exploration and Development. We were tasked with creating a record cover relating to our mode of practice and our chosen song. I chose Yellow by Coldplay and have started exploring techniques and expanding ideas. First starting off with the literal work. Eg. relatable, enticing female that’s described throughout the song.