"I started off this brief really trying to figure out what it is that makes us humans and came to the conclusion that to me, being human is about being vulnerable, in touch with your emotions and a little bit sad.
The initial stage of my project involved working from poetry I'd written which is obviously an inherent translation of things I'm feeling and thinking about but whilst exploring that I was also doing observational sketches of parts of my room and this particular vase I have on my desk sparked an idea.
Like a lot of people, my room is my safe space - it's where I'm allowed to be vulnerable,it's where I find privacy and it's where I nurture solitude and make sense of weird but wonderful feelings. So I started thinking about how that vase could become a symbol of my room, and therefore a safe space. If an object is operating as a safe space, how do I fit in it and how am I interacting with it?
I started thinking about how a character could fit into that vase and also about how making them small enough to do so, creates an interesting parallel with this idea of feeling small. And in feeling small, insignificant and a little bit sad comes a need to find that safe space - so a sequence came to my mind where that little character is diving into the vase and sitting there alone, in introspection. I then thought it would be fitting for the character to be smoking (which is a way I find of visually translating the idea of reflecting and thinking), and for the smoke to slowly make it's way up to the top of the vase and turn into flowers - which I feel sort of puts a positive, more hopeful spin on the sequence.
It translates the idea of a safe space being somewhere you escape to but also the idea of it being a space where you make sense of things and grow.
The final image is analog drawings scanned in and edited on photoshop, with digitally added colour underneath."
final submission
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