Assessment Criteria

Assessment Criteria

Assignment Four

Demonstration of technical and visual skills

I have created a set of eight images with additional side images and text. I am happy with how they have turned out. I believe they really do demonstrate my technical and visual skills. I have implemented various techniques over the course of my work and have developed from each assignment. Each location has three parts to it, the main images, the side mapping image and the text. I wanted them to work together as a set. I decided to print them out and move them around to get the right composition. Whilst I feel I have know found.  

Quality of outcome

This assignment gave me a chance to narrow down my images to create a cohesive set of images. I had multiple images of each location. I decided to lay them out and see which would work best together. This was a difficult decision to make, as it meant committing to a series of images to reflect my intent. I am happy with these eight images. I feel they work as individual images but also together. I did feel I need to add something. I always had an idea to include maps somehow, in order to contextualise the locations. I felt it may give structure to my work. I also had an idea to include my version of a strong women. I felt I needed to bring an aspect of women to contrast with the male dominance. I decided to combine these two things. I began experimenting. I ended up with the images of women from my family, who are my ancestors, who are apart of me, and who would follow me on this journey, with the actual journey. I am happy with the outcome of the images. I introduced text to the image. Keeping with the religious theme, I felt bible quotes would be best. I choose quotes which highlighted the inequality. Some of these quotes are powerful and have a real impact. I brought all three elements together, and I felt them worked well. 

The issue I have is with the print quality. The images are not as clear and concise as I would have liked. 

Demonstration of creativity

I have, in this assignment, brought another element in to represent a strong female connection. I decided to use my own archive of images and use picture of the women in my family. I also included maps of the locations. These take the form of a small collage which are to be looked at next to the main images.

Context

To contrast the strong male presence, I have introduced a feminine aspect. I wanted something personal to me, as I was making this journey, I felt images of women in my family would be appropriate. My feminine aspects contrast the male domination in these scenes and life in general. I have brought in my own family archive by doing this. I have used various techniques throughout my work. I have utilised a craft associated with women, I have included maps and I am highlighting the exclusion of inequality women face. My work fits in to feminist art, but has aspects of psychogeography, found images and postmodernism.