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| Image from Tumblr, Quote by Cesar A. Cruz |
For this project which looks at deconstruction and reconstruction, I am intending to look into mental health and disorders as these relate to a mind that has been deconstructed and reconstructed wrongly. The subject matter is very personal to me and I've decided that I want to create an emotionally raw outcome as I think that my work is always better when there is an element of something personal in it.
My initial research has come from looking at Millais' painted portrayal of Ophelia and Van Gogh's self portrait. Ophelia is a Shakespeare character who commits suicide through grief and remorse. Van Gogh is famously known to also have cut off his own ear in a moment of broken reality having suffered major depression throughout his life. I've taken inspiration from the movie 'A Beautiful Mind' which looks at the onset of schizophrenia in a university professor and Amy Winehouse, a singer who died battling a drug addiction and depression.
A photographer I've been looking at is Jeff Bark who has worked with Dazed and Confused on many occasions. As my concept is on mental health, I also want my corresponding article to relate to this topic and I believe that Dazed is a publication that would be interested in publishing such material. In turn, I also like Bark's images as they tend to give off a woodland feel that is somewhat dark to them. I've been told that I should aim to do something different for this project in terms of the final outcome and I'm willing to go out of my comfort zone. As the editorials I tend to make and enjoy looking at most are usually quite simplistic, I want to create an editorial fit for haute couture wear and Jeff Bark's work is a good source of inspiration for me.
The final editorial as it stands will be shot digitally using an array of coloured lights. I want the feel of the shoot to be beautiful but somewhat eery, as though you can tell something is not quite right but cannot pinpoint exactly what it is. The muse for the shoot (and thus the persona the model will be taking on) will be similar to that of a crazed maiden and I'm planning on shooting outside at night so that I can really manipulate the use of lighting and movement in the shots.
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