Monday 3rd September

Today was the first of the studio days, my first day at Ravensbourne University; very exciting. Our brief is all about ‘Descent’. Descent is the meaning of falling, dropping or going downwards. I was quite stuck in finding inspiration for this theme, but when I got home, I was struck by inspiration. The day consisted of researching into descent, and trying to create an idea for ourselves.

I am a big believer of angels, and I saw some feathers. I thought about how when feathers fall from the sky, they have been sent by an angel, from heaven, all the way to earth. The feathers are descending from heaven, a message from an angel. Another connection between the feather and the angel, is that angel wings are formed of these white feathers. I am thinking of overlapping layers of photographs on photoshop and see what sort of ideas expand from the initial idea. I decided to already take some photographs because I had all the still life objects here, and therefore gives me time tomorrow to start editing over Photoshop.

Overall, my idea is going to be looking into angels and feathers and how they descent to be with us in the human world, without making themselves known (barely).

I did have some alternative ideas which included the decay of the human body, and how over time, our body is changing, in a downwards direction. another idea was mental health, and how so many people struggle in todays society mentally, and how there is not a lot of publicity around that. My final alternative idea was falling into the unconsciousness mind, and how we are perhaps in a dream. I felt like these ideas didn’t connect to me as-well as my actual idea, and I felt like I can include a lot of my own opinions thoughts and feelings to my current idea.

As I have already taken the photographs in advance, I need to start and do the research for my idea. I was eager to get the photographs done so that I had something to work from, and whether my idea worked well physically rather than a plan.

This is a GIF called ‘A Cloak of Feather’. It relates to the my idea of descent because I am taking still photography of the fallen feathers, whereas this is showing how the feathers are falling. the black and white imagery creates an almost depression theme. I will be taking about this GIF in my sketch book along with other research.

I think I am dealing with my time management well as I am planning what I need to do, and being extremely organised with the presentation of my sketchbook and making sure work is in chronological order as I am doing them.