After collecting my work from university yesterday, I scanned every single print, not all are displayed above, and I started to work out how I was going to arrange the prints when coming to a physical display and installation. I started by working out 6 2×3 grids, by jotting it down on paper very methodically, which meant each item was never in the same place twice, and then arrange the colours to make sure I didn’t have the same print twice. This was before creating a grid with photo frames in InDesign, to make sure each print in the grid was the same size. I then took my letterpress prints, and I experimented with positioning, to work out where they looked the best but also didn’t didn’t interfere with the methodical layout.
Now I have a guideline for installing them physically. Originally before lockdown I was going to install them in the IVM studios at LCC however now that is obviously impossible. Therefore I am going to install in my flat, just very simply with blue tack, so I don’t ruin the walls. Originally I thought this would be a disadvantage, and therefore was going to move all my furniture out the way to get clear walls. However now thinking about it in context with the subject matter, I believe doing it in my flat will actually enhance the installation. As my subject matter is about domestic abuse. Placing it in a domestic setting, taking an environment which is suppose to be safe and secure, and then making it feel overwhelmed by all these images I think could be highly successful.
With the I am inspired slightly by Tracey Emin’s, ‘My Bed’ by the fact I don’t want I tidy flat, I want it to seem lived in because otherwise there is no point doing it in this environment intentionally, because it would look like a show flat otherwise, and not an environment which feels domestic, and everything a home should be. I am going to experiment with the over the weekend, including which rooms to include, will it just be the living room. Because I think the bedroom would have interesting connotations.