So this is the title to our first project. Our brief is to research and develop ideas into how a journey can be portrayed in a none-typical way, and what the word 'Journeys' means to us. I had several ideas to start with, including an idea by mapping my travels using the sounds I heard along my way. I began by collecting images of artists work. In particular I liked the work of Candy Jernigan, and her use of collage to build up the idea of a journey. She collects items and uses these to document her travels. I like the way she uses multiple objects in her work to portray a hectic or busy place. I work a lot with collage and so decided to plan a journey around Manchester and see what I could collect that would remind me of my journey. I walked around many of the busier areas, but also took a trip down to quieter places and wrote down anything that caught my eye, or that I would particularly remember when looking back over my walk. I recorded things I heard and sounds that remind me of different places. I walked for about two hours, and when I got back and looked over things I had collected, I realised that the most common things were leaflets. These were advertising events, pubs, shops and places. I decided to use these leaflets along with the sounds I had recorded to document my journey around the city.
I used different colours to represent different sounds I heard on a daily basis. I also used thick frantic lines to portray the busyness and noise of the city.
This was the first piece I tried out. I like the variety of materials I collected and think they are relevant to my journey. I don't think the overall composition works well, as the items I collected are displayed in a pattern around the edge of the page. I think documenting my journey in this way is too literal, and I will try a different, less obvious way of presenting my findings.
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