Final major project (week 1)

So its the big one the final major project and the brief is to write your own brief and I have 12 weeks to research, develop and come up with a final idea, which is a great opportunity to really develop a nice strong final outcome.

week 1
this week is research week i have to come up with two general ideas for the beginnings of a brief i then have to present the ideas to the tutor group which will help me narrow it down to one idea, I then then have to write the proposal for the chosen idea.

 Idea 1
my first idea is kind of a continue of my previous project "forever I've known nothings forever" i still think this text has a lot more to offer and as its so open it would be ideal for my fmp, so i started to really think about what the text meant. So I started to think, nothings really forever everything's always changing, so i then started to think about the word change and how that word is so open for ideas and again an excellent starting point for a brief so i started to already think of ideas.

 one being i want to get some old photographs of myself and then project them onto myself to show how I've changed throughout the years.

another being projecting pictures of the human anatomy on to myself or maybe other people and show how the human body is always changing.


another being getting hold of some evolution pictures and show how the human race has changed over hundreds and thousands of years.


I just think this as an idea is really open, and has countless amounts of ideas and outcomes to explore the idea behind the projection ideas was inspired by two artists

Shimon Attie
http://www.shimonattie.net/test/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16 

Shimon Attie used old photographs of old families and old buildings lost in history, and then finds the location of were the photgraphs were taken. He then projects the photographs over there locations were the old photographs were taken and takes these photographs.
 
 
its really interesting to see the contrast between the photograph and the surroundings and how things have change over the years. They look visually stunning the projections are so crisp and clear against these old ruins of buildings.


another artist who uses projections throughout there work is Christian Boltanski 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Boltanski 
Boltanski uses projections similar to Attie but in a very different way Boltanski uses old photographs off Jewish families and Jewish children and overlays, projects and lights up the photograph to forcefully remember those who were killed by the Nazis in the war.


the photographs are very powerful to look at, by using lights and shadows the photograph really stand out and contrasts against there surroundings.
 
 
this one is one of his instillation pieces were hes used little light projection to create these interesting shadows and characters on to the wall. So although he uses a similar technique to Attie he creates  very different outcomes.