EXPERIMENTS

Using water colour's to create symmetrical prints that you would normally associate with a childhood 'butterfly' painting, but here are reflecting the shape of the brain. I have been experimenting with the different effects that using fine line drawings and patterns can create.

These represent the memory in the brain that is unclear and blurry, this kind of memory is mostly found in the unconscious mind where memories are unclear and partial. As these memories are normally related to a trauma, I have used colours that are associated with stress, trauma and injury, that could also be perceived as dangerous.

I have been experimenting with ways of using shape in illustration, I started off cutting free hand triangles out of one page, then by placing the illustration of a personal memory behind the cut out shapes I was able to view the illustration through shape. This then restricts the amount of memory you could view, creating another effect of fragmentation, where a memory can only partially be remembered.

I then reversed this by using light to project the shapes across the memory, creating another way I could use shape without actually including it directly in my illustrations. This resulted in shadows scattered across my work.

As well as using free hand cut out triangles, I used a simple geometric pattern to use instead resulting in a much more even display of light across my work - this more accurate design could be something to develop to portray logic and math in future work.

I would like to take this further, on a larger scale as well as using projection which could lead to installation work, and include 3d work.