Week Four - #5

After some excellent feedback from my professor, I decided that I would research ethnographic art and implement the technique into my final. My professor mentioned a strength of mine is how I contextualize the history of my topic and ethnographic art is a perfect representation of that. I looked at the Tate ethnographic art exhibit online and got a basic concept of what I could do.

I went through all the text of my semester two portfolio and pulled the most important facts about fairies. Using those facts II made a rough mockup of an ethnographic art installation using my past visual ideas, an existing painting and found objects.

I particularly liked this idea because I wouldn’t have to throw out all my old visuals. I could represent different variations of the fairy queen including a portrait, an etching, a manuscript, a booklet and found objects and let my viewer jump around and get a full picture.