Development Exercise

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 This development exercise I started with a good choice of inspirational music. I was listening The Clash looking  for inspirations in newspapers ,scrap papers, and staring on the blank piece of paper. My project is related to the punk subculture so I tried to think as a Punk...

I found an advert with lots of grey space on the background, which reminds me a grey, boring buildings in Poland .I wrote words "Punk's not dead!" with a black ink. This is how they "mark the territory" by writing slogans on the walls. It is a vandalism, however if you are Punk, you don't really care.  


Next I found a beautiful advert with flowery shaped chocolates for Mother's Day. I don't know how to explain that but it was to cute and to pretty to stay like this. So I changed it a little bit. This time I drew a symbol of anarchy. Vandalism again, and also revolt against imposed rules. 


I really enjoyed that exercise and I found lots of opportunities in an ordinary newspaper. Next advertise was about buying a new house , the  "No Future!" slogan fits perfectly in here. Punk subculture is about rebelling against everything. Against the future, against the rules, against the parents etc. No one was planning buying house. Real punk lives in the squats.

I used a black ink again, which is perfect because the effect reminds me graffiti and something written illegally in hurry,  on the building. I also love the uneven lines and ink stains 

 
Next page was full of numbers and Puzzles games. The only number which is in my head now is number 77. The year when the Punk began in Poland. This number was written on everything, existed as an "inside message".

Later on I decided to be more creative and I splashed ink on the piece of paper. My project is about black so I worked with a black ink again. 

There is four A3 papers on the floor with an ink stains. I looked at them for about 20 min, from different angles, waiting for the inspiration. One page was calling me from the floor, I chose it..


In this ink stains and splashes I noticed something beautiful, the picture which was started already. I grabbed the black marker and I just finished it off.



Comments

  1. Sam Dargan8 May 2022 at 14:44

    This was a really well done development exercise. You have approached this from two directions, both as someone thinking about tattoo development and through the eyes of a punk! These are thoughtful ideas and need a follow up! Perhaps you could think about how or if colour could play a role in exercises like this and I would like to hear about how this has helped to develop your project idea and outcomes.

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