Copenhagen Part 2

(Photographs taken by Myself) 

    I have to say that it will take me a very long time to discuss and explain every single place I went to in Copenhagen as I felt that I probably ran around the whole city and back to try find every single exhibition/museum or gallery relevant to my Final Major Project (FMP), nonetheless this is why I have produced another sketchbook to show everything I saw and found whilst on my travels and I think this will add more interest, detail and perspective to my FMP whilst my viewers and assessors go through my work. Despite this, the images I have included within this post I feel is relevant enough to talk about from what I had seen. To begin with, the images above were from the Danish Jewish Museum. Getting there was very interesting as it took me right into the city centre and I got to see it all as I went past on the local buses. On top of this, the area that the museum was in was absolutely beautiful, it was in a sort of an old fort location which had beautiful architectural buildings surrounding the square, including this museum. At first, I thought this museum would be good to visit and research from the heritage and history it had within it, despite not focusing on Jewish History, it is the sentimental value it holds and encourages the people of this generation to never forget what people had discovered and worked so hard for. Thus, I felt that this related well to dementia with how certain people do so much with their life only for it to be all forgotten…

    When I got into the museum, I was completely blown away! The outside of the building was so traditional and rustic, whereas the inside was very intricate and modern in which the walls were slanted and the doorways were twisted. I wasn't quite sure as to why the interior of this museum had the layout like it did, although I thought that this also related to my FMP in which the brain changes, but also how the human changes into practically a new person from lost thought and confusion, thus relating to this interior layout.

(Photographs taken by Myself) 

    These photographs above were taken at the National Gallery of Denmark which was absolutely remarkable! Again, similarly to the Jewish Museum, it had a very old, traditional layout from the outside, yet the inside was modern with traditional touches. If anything, the work they had reminded me of a more european Tate Modern. I found the work in there to be very helpful in terms of what I want to be inspired by and what I allowed myself to be inspired by. A lot of paintings that stood out to me were the ones that were abstract and blended, creating some form of illusion or change from the realistic form. I thought that they related because of how the mind of someone with dementia becomes distort and you can't always tell what they are thinking, nor what they want to think. Moreover, even though something doesn't look so obvious or clear, it still stands out as being something bold and beautiful and that is truly something that is hard to forget. In addition, these sorts of paintings add a lot of perspectives and opinions and it is interesting to see how different people interpret the paintings, whether that being based on emotions, relations, locations and much more. 

    I had thoroughly enjoyed my travels to Copenhagen and I can definitely say that I would love to go there some time in the future. Not only this, I have matured myself as a person by not only travelling alone, but giving myself a chance to be independent and chose the works that I would only find suitable for my work and not from what a tutor or friend will push me towards. In addition, I know that I need to go to many more exhibitions and museums to get further research, but I already feel that I am at a strong point due to the fact I had gone out of my way to dedicate a weekend to my FMP research, but it made it much more primary and detailed than your standard trip to the V&A or Tate, which is why I want to try use this research as much as possible to stand out from the others and make my work more original and unique.