Yeah I checked your other posts in VA; thank you so much. It's genuinely so motivating haha. I've experimented with perspex, which is the medium that I'm working with. Something akin to this:
http://api.ning.com/files/u-WTCMwwA...hOawI1tZ5fHXRIaFzCTAzSgY4qF/yosmanbotero1.jpg
The only problem that's stressing me out is my concept. I'm leaning towards the social expectations one but I saw a work like that in the 2007 ArtExpress and don't want to get screwed over for "plagiarism" or anything of the sort :/
Well, although you may use similar materials, you can use the materials in a creative way to explore your concept from different facets, have you thought about using other materials? So like, Perspex may be just a component of your BOW, and you can have other components like drawing, or sculpture, or a collage? What mediums are you the most confident and comfortable in working in besides Perspex? If you are leaning towards the social expectations one-perhaps you should do a more detailed mind map and even a thorough google search of the many different ways in which social expectations can be expressed-not just in Perspex, in other mediums as well, I think if you stick a photo of the work from 2007 Art express into your Visual Arts Diary and make it an influence/inspiration for your work-than you won't be screwed over for plagiarism, art express is a source of inspiration for a lot of students, so don't avoid recognition of your sources, even if they are by HSC students-it shows that you are doing some good research
What artists have you looked into so far?
Maybe broaden your concept a little bit-like don't just restrict it to social expectations effects on the human face, expand it to a more general thematic concern of social expectation, and then you can diverge many more ideas, i.e. what social expectations do you want to focus on-on gender roles, race, stereotypes, those that are enforced by the mass media, what age group-all age groups? or just adolescents, children, teenagers, adults, old people? Are you going for a more abstract representation or semi-abstract or realistic? Are you showing the restraints that social expectations have on our behaviour or do you want to show the freedom that individual still manages to find despite social expectations-by rebelling against them? Or do you want to show both facets? Are you going to investigate the source of social expectation? What effect does social expectation have on our well being physically, socially, emotionally, psychologically, over a short or long term period? Do you intend to make a strong social comment on the effects of these social expectation or is your purpose merely to bring to consciousness the existence of these expectations?
Would the faces be real or digitally constructed? Would they be faces of people you know-like friends and family or random strangers? Would they be multiple faces amalgamated into one? Or would it be one face but can be seen from different angles to share different emotions?
Do you think potentially photography-in both the traditional and digitally manipulated forms might possibly enhance your idea? If so, how? if not, why? (i.e. you might not be comfortable with photography), similarly ask yourself these questions to other possible mediums you may be inclined to use-don't have a too fixated idea that it is just Perspex, welcome other possibilities and write them down-the more fixed idea you have about your major work at the start of the year, the harder it is to develop and improve on it-I think answering the questions above by yourself will enable you to expand your mind map a lot more and possibly prevent you from 'copying' the 2007 art express work by coming up with an equally unique idea about social expectations and the way you are presenting it. Hope that will get some creative juices flowing
