CLUB KIDS AND MASKS

Being in the library has been hard, no relevant books, no relevant nothing. I finally came across a book full of photos of London club kids. '' New Club Kids'' by Oggy Yoranov. The book is filled with photos of people in crazy outfits and make up. No writing which seemed just like the kind of book I needed to find visual inspiration from.

Here are some of my personal favourites. I looked closer and closer at the images and decided to do some bling drawings of the faces. I really like the linear plain drawings.

 

I have realized that the drawings would make an interesting surface pattern. I drew all of the faces really close together using one line. I did this because I was focusing on a specific group of people, all different yet the same, supporting each other, that's why I decided to draw them using one line. However, surface pattern is not something I want to explore further in this brief.

I have then found an image of a confused child, the red t-shirt contrasting with everything around the boy has inspired me to look at red fabrics. The image has made me evaluate my childhood and all the things children/teens would peer pressure each other into. I have then moved on and created a collage, almost a story. One of the girls isn't feeling very well, she has a white powder all around her nose. Her friend, is jumping on her head, this is my reflection of peer pressure, she is jumping on her head because she is trying to persuade her that she is fine and she needs to carry on sniffing drugs with her.

I have then started looking at materials and fabrics, using some of them on my face to see how they would work as masks. I used a thin scuba and tied it tightly on my face, I loved how that looked. There is something very interesting in the way my face became deformed and my features changed, there is also something interesting about the unisex and sexual feeling about this. While my friend was experimenting with cling foil we tied it around my face and the result was actually quite interesting, there was something very exciting about not being able to breathe between the layers, after each layer I would have to poke a hole for my mouth, that process was actually more interesting than the result itself.