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The contrast between a cold grey face is intentional. The simplicity of the face is emulating German expressionism with the contrasting background. It’s up for debate if you want to stand out or become engulfed into the surrounding. And that’s the main thing I wanted to portray.

I used oils and acrylic on an A3 canvas.

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On a family trip to Cornwall, I went to a Witchcraft museum holding an impressive number of periodic paintings and sculptures.

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Inspired by this Nevinson print in the Barbour institute, Birmingham, I went on to design my own prints. This one really resonated with me as you are able to see movement if you alternate between winking each eye. The actual design itself is rather chaotic and opened up a creative vault for me when it came to making my linos.

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I attended a small exhibition in the basement of a coffee shop in Stirchley. The nature of which, hugely impacted the direction of my project. The concept of immersing yourself into a virtual journey captivated me to show this movement in my project and with the developing “metaverse”, stood out as something not far on the horizon for technology.

I changed my narrative, exploring a virtual, dystopian world in which inhabitants “plug themselves” in to. This idea appealed to me as it is almost synonymous to our every day lives. We become too engrossed in our societal matrix that we forget we are the microcosm in a world of consciousness.

My idea holds a mirror to this attitude with a virtual reality as a backdrop.

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Something I often shy away from is editing but I decided to explore it here. This photo of Aaron was taken during the illustration workshop but I decided to edit the vibrancy as if it were made to satisfy a screen. Making this photograph so overtly edited represents the reality of the “plug in world”. Having this as an expectation makes the virtual world so much more alluring to an inhabitant rather than the dull realities of real life.

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I made this print to convey that people of the future are living a life through man- made technology and have adjusted their perspective of reality. The eye on someone else’s hand suggests giving up freedom in order to conform.

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More pop art editing, the woman here is my sister acting as a model. My main goal was to emphasise texture in the same way reality is pixelated.

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Photos I used as reference here are a screenshot from Russian Pinocchio. The faces of two somber children were very thought provoking for me and It was from watching this film that I discovered German expressionism- a style I carried forward in my work.

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From observing the incredibly preserved works in the museum, I saw a lack of religion and atmosphere, I decided to explore this in my illustration. The details made are supposed to mimic that of religious imagery and the face melting away is suggesting lack of nature. I realised the huge void left in the social state of this dystopian future and conveyed how convoluted it really was in this drawing.

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I made this early in my project, it plays into the stereotypical “future world”. I purposely made it look 2D to amplify the unrealistic society that people become too infatuated with.

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This depicts a woman jumping into a reality of darkness and immersing herself in something “not real”

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Here I explored texture by doing a line drawing in the scrap ink paper I was cleaning my roller on. bizzarly, I liked the different textures and improvisation when it came to creating something. This was not planned out yet I thought it was interesting how It related.

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I saw this painting at the Tate Modern, London. The two contrasting styles planted a seed in my head to explore an alternate reality that we plug ourselves into in the future.

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For this oil painting I wanted to use texture and layers to display the different layers to reality. I used brown paper to layer up the background and also edited this video to represent glitches in technology.

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This was an ink painting I did to represent people self image in the future. I used a very loose style to portray how people can be mailable when looking through the lense of an alternate reality.

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An improvised charcoal drawing representing that people are hollow and that we are all just pawns in our atmosphere. Nothing behind the eyes also suggests lack of identity in this future world.

I also improvised these features but was later told that they emulated my own which I suppose is even more intriguing.

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I printed two Color’s on top of Eachother and filled in the space with a fine lined drawing. This was spontaneous but I was happy with how it turned out