I visited the Imperial War Museum, at this early stage of my project I am going to research into as many different areas of the project that I can. In this exhibition there were some large, bent, rusted steel shards. I began photographing the marks made from the rust and damage caused to them, i went on to read where they were from and found out they were window sills from the World Trade Center.
I looked closer and was able to see markings written on the window sills.
I was surprised by how much colour is in the steel shards. The letters sprayed onto them makes me think of people that worked to build the trade center and the journey that has happened since and effected us all.
Photography could be a very powerful tool in my development of this project. It will make the prints more lifelike and relate able rather than a drawn image of my own interpretation.
The images are very textured so i have tried to recreate this to make my work more 3 dimensional to bring it to life. I will edit these photographs further and play with different colour ways and how it could be put into repeat to make it unrecognisable and see where this takes me. The strengths are in the scratch marks, only once you know the story behind the shards do you see them as violent or upsetting. But to everyone else it is simply markings of the ware and tear to the building and nothing else. I really like this idea of an untold story.
There was also a car from Bagdad that has been destroyed in a carbomb. The metal had twisted and bent out of shape due to the power put against it. It looked like fabric drapped over itself, uncontrolled and natural. This juxteposition against what had really happened to the car made me think about controlling what the viewer thought they saw and what was actually there.
I could try and recreate this with drawings and fabric. Looking at how fabrics fall on the body and distort figures.
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