My idea for this assignment is to produce imagery that portrays mental health issues. I plan to do studio portraits and use the scanner art technique I learnt in the images and dreams assignment to overlay text on the images. I will ask people who have suffered with mental health problems how they feel. I will then copy this onto acetate, scan it into the computer and layer it over the image.
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One of the main artists who has influenced this concept is Andrea Costantini. His work entitled “Oblivion- A different state of mind”, “Imaginaira- The world as I see it” and “Where is my mind” are some of my favourites. I will also research the charities “Mind” and “Childline” as this is a sensitive subject that needs to be executed perfectly.
As this is a studio based project I am going research and analyse different lighting techniques as even small changes to lighting can affect the whole look and feel of an image.