Elizabeth Broughton 108-531-7076
Empty Spaces #001
Ink, biro and collaged papers on paper;
A5 (21 x 15 cm).
For this project I was considering four words "Time, Identity, Place, Body" and the project was titled "Word, Image, Sequence". This already gave me a huge range of ideas and I needed to begin filtering them out. One idea that really stood out to me was memory and traces; the things people leave behind and take with them. You can see from this piece and the others that go with it, that I was fascinated by absence, presence and this idea of objects and how they tell a story of their own. There is a significant lack of human presence and an emptiness, and this recurring image of the chair I am using reflects all these ideas successfully.
Here I experimented with my background - I loved this bleak, dark void that the chair seemed to be floating on, but layered some bits of tissue paper and masking tape to create a kind of plane or a platform for it to sit within - almost like a jagged aura. It had an interesting effect, but somehow I felt that a flatter background had a stronger effect and felt more empty - which is exactly what I was after.
Empty Spaces #001
Ink, biro and collaged papers on paper;
A5 (21 x 15 cm).
For this project I was considering four words "Time, Identity, Place, Body" and the project was titled "Word, Image, Sequence". This already gave me a huge range of ideas and I needed to begin filtering them out. One idea that really stood out to me was memory and traces; the things people leave behind and take with them. You can see from this piece and the others that go with it, that I was fascinated by absence, presence and this idea of objects and how they tell a story of their own. There is a significant lack of human presence and an emptiness, and this recurring image of the chair I am using reflects all these ideas successfully.
Here I experimented with my background - I loved this bleak, dark void that the chair seemed to be floating on, but layered some bits of tissue paper and masking tape to create a kind of plane or a platform for it to sit within - almost like a jagged aura. It had an interesting effect, but somehow I felt that a flatter background had a stronger effect and felt more empty - which is exactly what I was after.