Looking back on the all the photographs I have taken at protests and demonstrations over the year. I did not use some of the photographs as I felt they were so crowded that when fly-posted on a wall with others it become a crass mess that would hurt your eyes.
I wanted to create a more refined idea of an assembly of people, I though that abstracting the image to a line would be a literal yet possible way of creating this. After experimenting with a variety of photographs, I decided that not only do they serve their purpose for the creation of a crowd, but develop a sense of depth that can be achieved with the variation of distance that the photographs contain.
Having developed a new found love for screen-print, the idea of a protest bringing people from all walks of life together merges perfectly with arranging the images so that no print will be the same. Arrangements create different ideas, triggering memories of space and time. For a simple experiment, this has definitely worked in my favour.
Condensing my work and refining it to what I actually want to put in my degree show is becoming an increasing problem. The themes of my work suggest that borderline chaos is a possibility, but I need to find a way of controlling this chaos to tell the story of others and embody the reason behind the chaos.
