A NEW APPROACH

After collecting a number of memories from a variety of different people, I have tried to divide them under the headings of music, shape, colour and speech, logic and math and am finding it extremely hard to place them under these titles by looking at the memory written down on a piece of paper. I was aiming for this project to be broad by being based on memories across a variety of people some of which I don't know creating diversity in my work. 

I want this brief to allow me to produce work that freely and in doing that gain a project that shows my best skills as an illustrator. I want to show that I am able I can develop my style to any brief thrown my way as I believe that being versatile is something that will be invaluable in the industry. I will have to be flexible to meet my clients demands. Throughout the last project I limited myself to only illustrating around one topic, using the same imagery over and over. So rather than produce a body of work that is very similar I want to be able to show a variety within my work.

Although Memory is the topic that I am basing this project on I have decided that by illustrating many different memories, with each memory being a separate piece I will show that I can work from many different texts. As I have progressed to this stage in the brief I have discovered that I have the opportunity to make this a more personal journey of discovery. Part of the feedback from the last brief was that I could have used the last brief as a more personal exploration of genetics. 

So instead of using a variety of other peoples memories to complete this project I am going to focus on my own memories. Memories of my childhood, earliest memories right up until the present newest memories. Where I am finding it near impossible putting other peoples memories under the catagories of shape, music, colour, logic, math and speech, from guessing what triggered these memories from the memories I have written down. I will be able to do this easily with my own memories as I will know what has triggered them as soon as I remember them. 

I will be illustrating these memories as they come to me, as a certain smell or colour reminds me of something. These memories can then be written down as they come to me, so I can go home and illustrate them. I will end up with a complete variety of probably quite random, interesting and strange pieces of work, but that have meaning and are personal to me.