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I decided to enhance the colours of the paintings as I felt made the image more emotion as the pigment is so rich.
I used a variation of technique to obtain these textures. After using white and black wet paint on each side of the glass block. I used layering and scratching.

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After an initial approach  to creating a video outcome, I decided to go back to painting. And after looking at the work of

Toyin Ojih Odutola I was insightful to a different perception.  Here is an experiment on a first black and white acrylic paint on a glass block with splashes of red/orange colour.

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After looking at the work of Richard Mosse I decided to take as similar approach to colour that he had used. I painted a landscape picture I found online. I really was interested in the outcome as it looked beautiful like a garden almost making the soldier look like a common citizen. I like the idea of  presenting something beautiful to start sometimes uncomfortable conversations.

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Mosse gained significant attention for his photographs of the war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo using colour infrared film intended to create a new perspective on conflict.

I find this interesting because the use of pink is associated  with romance an innocence which is at first an opposite of war ( green= greed and nature).
This made me question my own relationship to the event I am learning about. I guess to a certain degree, these colours reflect my initionial  romantic and innocent  story of my father I was hoping for.

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I wanted to replicate one of the occupational positions using the Congolese flag colours. The red which symbolises the blood of the people,  gold the wealth and blue the bright future. It was necessary for me to use those colours because I was using the map of the isle of Wight ( which I had in my house already+ Rona).
But in a way reflect my foreign feeling to understanding this war.

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During my research, I had to use  different medias to gain a clear understanding of the events. These sets if YouTube video showed a visual movement of the different parties in Congo. I was very interested in the colours and how the visual was easy to understand and shows the division.

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I tried a different approach on a old vinyl I painted it with acrylic and oil paint and then varnished it,. I the stuck aluminium around it and painted it with ink. I liked working on a circular surface it gives me a sense of chronology as if you can read the image per line.

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This a experiment on a old CD I got from a charity shop. I covered with ink the scratched/drawn the portrait od my Dad into it. I think this is successful and I like how the colour of it changed with light  because it adds dimension. Diamond in the rough. I think this reflect my journey on this project. in a way I am creating and carving in the dark.

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During these experiment I am starting to feel overwhelmed by all the research that  I am doing so I want to translate some sort of physical recording to fell as if I am participating and creating something to acknowledge as it was not done around me.
This in me sewing the positive cut of the mesh on black fabric.

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experimenting with shadows came about in my process of collaging while erasing part of the image. I decided to isolate the silhouette because I found it easier to digest and still represented the process of my thought around this image.

I experimented with a mesh like silver sheet which I later sprayed gold. the gold makes it fell rich and bold which is im

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There was a lot of power shifts at the end of the 20th century in central Africa, Zaïre and Rwanda; which created a lot of destabilizes and fragile environments. Leading to fight/conflict due to the interest of resources and power the countries hold. With no parties or government in control a lot of inhuman acts took place.

The chain of event started in Rwanda and spilled over and facilitated the wars which took place in Zaïre:

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Bibliography:

Vépierre, A. (2016). L’Est de la RD-Congo déchiré par 22 ans de guerre. [online] La Croix. Available at: https://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Afrique/LEst-RD-Congo-dechire-22-guerre-2016-08-15-1200782377 [Accessed 3 Mar. 2020].

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Using an acrylic block because of it's smooth surface and thickness I decided to paint some of the lines I traced from the picture like I did the jeans. The red line for the gate, yellow for the frames and blue for the outline of the jeans. I used those 3 colours because they are the colours of the DRCongo flag. Blue represents peace. Red stands for "the blood of the country's martyrs", yellow the country's wealth. I choose this because I think it resonated with those being the messages I was trying to rase awareness on.

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I like the acrylic blockbecause It makes the piece look heavy and lets the colour travel and slightly  visible in different angles.

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Looking at the different maps and the line I saw inthe pictirute I did hand drawing conecting the image to the maps. I liked carefully traying to follow the maps but connecting the image gave it a destination and created a maze,

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Notes the information that was share with me by my uncle in Rwanda from which I got the 2 potential within

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This a document that explore the ethnic territories pre-colonial and how they changed to creates territories as we know them now . I am exploring the geometrical cause colonialism had and how this help cause the conflict that still takes place today.(please read the notes)

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby
collage of news paper creates texture and dimension for the portraits. repetition and line work very present in the blue,..    scale?

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-njideka-akunyili-crosby-paints-captivating-visions-of-cosmopolitan-nigeria

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artist reshearch Njideka Akunyili Crosby

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Doing research on the events that took place in 1998-2001. This am article covering the movement of reblesand what parties where involved. This is helping me create a time line.

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While observing the photograph and after cropping and editing it I started to notice caps and cracks into it. Especially in this part of part of it. As I draw on I started to see a river like mapping that attracted because I felt like I was decoding the image. I used the gold pen on wide gaps and orange and red on the thinnest. I like isolating part of the image as it feels less overwhelming.

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I was drowned to these line because they had no meaning and they constantly changed so I colour coded them based on their thickness

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trying to draw attention to the wider world and how we view places e.g not a place where other human lives but just data and cross roads and land. The bold colours highlight the street and routes because it makes it stand out more and contrast with the white and blue.

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Reading back on my first details of the location of my dad, I started tracing into cracks of a copy of the jeans I had cropped and printed. I used different colours. I used the red colour for the small cracks that where not very thick and hard to see and  gold for the thick ones. At first it reminded me of a river because the traces reminded me of a map of all the rivers because of how they connected. I then started to connect the tracing I had done on the jeans with the map I had been exploring in my research.

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ARTIST

I was interested in the framing in section of a map because It reminds me of the map I have been looking at in my own work. I love the aspect of the map becoming the work. The framing I things helps the views to focus on a specific junction, unlike usual maps which are filled with information and is hard to process. The framing creates an repetition as within the map you see more frames of where different streets intersect. He use white paper surface in which he draws on. I think that is interesting as it make the work seem simple and intimate because it is not overly worked on with different material or image of the physical place. I like how he uses lines in this work.

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In this outcome I was playing around with cropping and recollaring the together in a different composition. I uses Lines (in gold) that was created in the new image to create a composition . I think this helped me place the image in the sense that I recognised more than the faces I saw.
This image is quite satisfying because of the strait lines and easy it is to read. But it also let your imagination expand because you can see the lines continue to create a bigger map because there are no edges , I fell that it is a continuous image.

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Photography has been for years, a way of documenting and recording event in away that it is considered authentic and accurate event many years later they always seem to preserve that reputation even if its old.

At 20 year old I received the first photograph of my father.