Deciding on a Theme.

When we received the exam paper we were told what the theme was for the project; it happens to be the growth and Evolution of... Then a subject of your choice. 

deciding on a theme was very hard for me, there`s so many things that i enjoy doing and so many places i wanted to explore; the only thing that was easy, was putting what i wanted to do into the right context for the subjects title. so i thought back to things that had happened recently and one of them happened to be the passing away of my Grandma. When it came to her burial i wanted to do a respectful ceremony involving lotus flowers. 

Eventually my theme turned into respect for the dead through burials; the only bad thing about choosing The Growth And evolution Of Burials was that i didn`t have a lot of primary sources to work from so it made it difficult to do any art within the first few weeks of sixth form. 

Eventually i turned my work towards respecting the dead through burials, so instead of being dark and creepy my work turned into more bright and lively things... I didn`t want my work to be morbid and depressing to look at. 

Obviously i haven`t started blogging since i started sixth form, so i`ve already done some work; but using primary sources in such a dark subject is extremely difficult. You could go and do photography in a graveyard but that`s looked down upon as dis-respectful to the dead; so i didn`t want to push my boundaries with that. 

The only thing i could think of was of taking a photo of a grave of someone who had passed away in my family so it wasn`t of a strangers and it didn`t come across as disrespectful to viewers of my work. This was the only way around being dis-respectful in anyway and if anything i really i don`t want that to show in my work i produce. 

So even though i wanted to do the Growth and evolution of Burials, it had to lean a lot more to The Growth And Evolution of Respect For The Dead... even though it`s still connected to burials i was still disappointed at the fact that we were strictly forbidden to use secondary resources for our work. I was disappointed in that but i was sure to keep on working and see what the final outcome could be, even if there was a difference in what i wanted to choose, it`s still easy to blend the two together so i can make and produce what i originally wanted to do. 

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