Dicussion with Fred.

After my tutorial with Fred about needing to tell the stories of each person across more then just one portrait, i spend the weekend developing the collages which i hoped would be the type of development necessary to accomplish this. 

i showed these to Fred, along with this layout that for a exhibition i am proposing the illustrations to exist in;

he suggested that instead of still thinking about them as wall hangings, to broaden the scope and context. though i had consider layout a lot in the collage designs - (linking them together like a tryptic, yet working as separate pieces as well) he suggesting thinking about their layout of the wall. 

so i have thought about creating a concertina book. though this means i need to alter the layout of the collages, i want to use the same technique and produce a continuum illustrated collage that works as separate pages on the concertina but when opens links together and exists as one long collage.

i think this idea works better as i feel it strengthens the concept of a journey - especially as i have decided to layout the collages starting with early memories and ending in more current life situations this layout will visually communicating the timeline of their life.

it allows me to incorporate the portrait illustrations as part of the concertina also. using the portraits as the front cover, with a few overlaying illustrations to communicate parts of their life as a taster of whats to come. i like how it will also introduce the viewer to the person, yet they will initially just think of them as just another elderly person - then they will learn about them, making them more interesting, hopefully influencing the viewer to interact more with elderly people, finding common connections and remembering they have had and still have interesting lives and stories to share.