(Drawing produced by Myself)
Whilst sitting in class, I felt that it was relevant to produce an observational drawing of people who were sitting around me. I decided to do this via charcoal and I kept the charcoal to the paper without lifting to create some sort of journey across the page. Not only this, I got cut out imagery from a Textiles book I found in a library and also did an observational drawing of textures underneath it to create a layering effect as I did the charcoal drawing on tracing paper. I didn't actually plan to produce anything like this within my project, although I think that I should take every opportunity to complete as many observational drawings as possible. I really enjoy this process as it reflects on the lives of different people and the photocopies and drawings I produced on textures are supposed to represent a sense of entrapment from the Dementia diagnosis and how there is no turning back. I felt that it was relevant to put this next to my survey/interviews I produced to ask the general pubic, staff and those with dementia. Unfortunately, trying to get contact with those who have dementia has not been easy at all and I have also tried to get work experience in a care home, but the staff have not been reliable at all to help me with this research.
Overall, this quick little process could lead to many possibilities and ideas such as print, knit, further drawings, collage and much more. If I could have done anything different, I would have taken the opportunity to draw more people or perhaps different locations using different textures from the book I found. Nonetheless, as I have said before I never planned to create this process but I am glad that I have tried to expand my work further before I fully dig into experimentation for my Final Major Project (FMP).
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