Major Project!

Now that's us back at college full time, which is good I prefer having a structure to my week I end up doing more work. We've been working on our PLP's this week and I've decided what it is I'm planning on researching. My aim is "Explore and expose our culture's ideas of the sense of self, what it person and what makes someone who they are."
Looking at researching inner narratives and how people feel they can or can't express themselves. The artists that I'm looking into are Andy Warhol: who has a female alter-ego 'Diva', he often looked into identity, he questions the idea of personhood any celebrity culture. Cindy Sherman is a photographer who uses makeup and costumes to create different characters which in turn illustrates different aspects of her personality. Also, I will be looking at musical artists such as David Bowie and Lady Gaga who throughout their careers changed their personas, which lead to questions of how we present ourselves to the public.
I'll also be basing my ideas of the philosophies of Judith Butler, an author who researched the difference between performance and performativity. Her essays Gender Troubles (1990) and Sense of the Subject (2015) are the main ones that I'll be looking into. As they focus on the sense of self, how we interact with others and how we perform ourselves.

Playing around with the layout

Here I was trying different opitions for the layout of this collage:

In the end I went with the top one as I felt it looked the most balanced. 

Sketchbook pages

Refining concepts

From carrying out some extensive research I've decided that I want to look into cyberspace as my non-place as it's a place that most of us spend our time (obviously true if you're reading this) but we can never really get there. There is no beginning and no end to the internet.
I'm also interested in surveillance and how we are watched a society. However, I'm worried that I'm trying to fit too much all into the one project. Something that I know I need to work on is self-editing.

As for the physical side to the project, I think that it is going well. I've created a series of paintings and collages which has helped me to decide how I want my final piece to look.