The first thing to start on rejection is to do research on the topic at hand. I chose a pretty hard topic to research, with it all being contained in my head and my own life, it's hard to know where to begin. I guess I should state my little version of the journey.
This journey is going to be one that I don't know when it will end. This is going to be about the complex feelings about identity and sexuality, along with the self-critiques I have of myself and things that upset me in my life. This is why I felt like it was a little hard to place down where to go first.
After thinking about it for a little while, I want to first do some thematic research. This is research that is more relevant to the project in a visual way, rather than concepts and other things like contextual and live research, so let's start there. I'll probably be starting with secondary research rather than primary since it is easier to get secondary.
In this board, I wanted to find things that I felt like I either greed and felt the same or a simple sort of eye style that involves texture. I also wanted to have some sort of photography in there since I like using photography, and I am hoping to make some of my own for this project.
So, what do I think of what I have produced here? I think it is quite positive. The cryptic kind of art style with the shaker handwriting gives the kind of feeling of something not being okay. I also began to explore using photography with these words rather than just simple drawings, along with paintings. I thought they have more impact and are more meaningful, although I would still love to try the simple "sad style" of drawing, paired with some sad words.
Was it successful? yes, it has been. The choice of images I have chosen here really has inspired me to begin creating illustrations of what I am feeling, along with visualisation diagrams for photos I could take and edit for the project since I would wanna start using more primary research and tools rather than just stealing things from the internet.
What would I do differently? I don't think I would do anything different here. I am really happy with the slow transformation over these 70 pins from going mainly drawn images that are quite simple with a little amount of text, to longer pieces of text with no imagery, to moving into photography with this imagery, paired with editing in photoshop of course.
How could I develop this moving forward? I would develop this by simply finding more images like the newer ones I found, of photography with words. Although the Pinterest algorithm might also give me a bunch of different other pieces of content that I also would think link closely with the topic at hand, it could go anywhere if I stay on Pinterest.
Is this something I would revisit in the future? I know I said this for all of the other pieces of work but I would like to think I would. These simple illustrations, which are almost Rodger-inspired but not as detailed, paired with this photography have sparked my interest.
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