Tell An Untold Story: Back to Uni Tutorial

What concerns were resolved during my tutorial?

• Matt definitely helped me to refine my ides and I can see now that creating a personas for the different objects was a total over complication. I think that it would have perhaps have made things too obvious to the viewer. Having an ambiguity to the imagery works well with the ambiguity of presence and non presence. 
• I wanted to work with colour in some way as I always go for a monochrome palette because I find using colour difficult. However, Matt said that it doesn’t work with my subject matter to use bright colour. This was a relief to hear but I definitely want to push myself to play with colour in the next brief.
• I was worried about finding a coherent style and media to use throughout my book because I have been working in lots of different ways. We discussed it and I now see that this isn’t necessary. The contrast actually works well with my subject matter and creates an interesting tension. Perhaps even having quite a jarring contrast between pages could be interesting. A flux between black and white and colour could also work well too in this way. 
• I was concerned about weather or not to have people in my images or to just present the spaces. It was suggested that I have a mixture of both. I think that just having ghostly figures and fragments of people could work nicely. Playing around with scale and flouting body parts to represent presence could also work. 

How am I going to move forward?

• I am going to print tones of photos and continue to play around with thinners and settings - I like the transience it gives my images. Maybe work into them to draw out details in pencil and ink?
• I want to continue to play around with negative space and the wheel object.
• I am going to do some more studies using just ink, I love the calm yet dramatic mood that this gives my work.
• I would also like to try working with thinners on A4 paper as I am finding A5 too limiting - this will allow me to add more detail.
• I would like to try adding small spots of colour to my location images.
• I am also gong to brainstorm things that to me suggest a creepy presence, which I can bring into some of my images - hands, rocking chair, fabric ?