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REMEDIATION
This is my take on the brief and what I and my mum thought scottish culture was to us as individuals and to us as mother and daughter. I used a lot of my upbringing and how i viewed living in scotland to my advantage to really find a theme that worked for me and made me feel good about my work. I also looked and what people in my life see Scotland as, many seeing it for the scenic beautiful country it is. So here you have my take!
REMEDIATION
This research was more aimed towards the calming side of the sea, the side i actually like to the sea. Looking at the ripples and how the shadows and highlights lay on them and then looking at gairloch itself, my hometown, the place i grew up and how that place is a huge comfort to me and has been my entire life. And then lastly looking at scottish fish as my grandma being a marine biologist and always having a lot of fishy themed things in my life i thought adding fish to my references and to my sketchbook was a smart idea.
These next couple of posts will be my research and inspiration for my scottish culture themes! I looked through the internet and through books on the internet to try and find the same sort of feeling and ideas i was going for and i think these do it justice.
The deep sea with horrifying looking monsters really helps to show through my fear to my art and to help me express what kind of fear it really is.
I also took some inspiration from a book i found online called Folklore of the scottish highlands, which gave me the idea of doing kelpies as an experiment.
REMEDIATION
this is my mind map for my ideas for scottish culture, I tried to look at everything that i thought was scottish culture and not just what other people think it is! I also got the help of my mums thoughts on it and my girlfriends to see if i could link what they think to how i feel.
REMEDIATION These are my pages of my second theme idea for scottish culture! I chose to do it on the sea as Scotland is obviously surrounded by the sea and the sea holds a close place in my bringing up in Scotland itself. This theme holds close to me as i was brought up close the sea. My house in Gairloch that my grandma owns is right in front of the sea, and even when my family moved to the east coast we were always close to the sea and would spend many weekends going for long walks on the beach, etc. I decided it would be a good theme to go with as although the sea is a special place to me as a Scottish person, it is also one of my biggest fears, I do not mix well with the ocean as I cannot swim and the deepest parts of the ocean scare me endlessly! So taking both my love of the sea and the sounds of the sea and also taking my fear, I tried to create experiments and a semi final piece that showed exactly that, fear and love!
While I think this idea could be devloped into the final piece, I prefer my initial idea of Scottish witchcraft, as it felt more interesting and i had a clear idea for seeing it to the finish.
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Last but not least this is my final print! This is my favourite because i feel like it brings across the message i wanted in a abstract way. I also feel this will work well as a riso print! I love how this turned out, i like the very blacked out areas and i like how the flames are white to show that flames are shining brighter than the souls that were taken. The cork keeping the bottle sealed shows the lack of interest and research that went into showing our painful past, our past of killing many many innocent people, mainly women, just from the fear of them having power.
For a lot of my art inspo i used plenty of traditional images and such that i found on pinterest. I wanted a more authentic feel to my traditional art. I wanted to show where all my ideas of sketches, final pieces, etc came from and how from a small image something bigger developed, that’s what i was really looking for in my research.
I also used a book called Scottish witchcraft as i wanted to get an insight into scottish witches more than just the stereotype i knew.
