My ideas before returning to Uni
Before going back to take my final year I knew that I wanted to be creative with my project and do something that’s not been widely shown before. This brought me to my first idea which was to show the different ways you could change your body, either by make-up, piercing, tattoos and most of all drag queens. I had some contacts I knew I could use and got in touch with them before starting Uni, but unfortunately due to Covid19 I realised that it would not be possible to do this as I would need a model, make-up artist, hairstylist for every shoot and with social distancing there was no way this would be allowed. So I went back to the drawing board, I knew the one thing I wanted was my work to raise awareness to something or work that can help people. This brought me back to a project that I had been carrying out over the years with a model/friend I knew. This project was based on Mental Health, I had started this project at first to work my way through my own feelings I was going trough at the time and some days still am, I was trying to show the emotions I felt from the inside and expressed them externally. The model I used I have know for a few years now and because I knew her it was easy to do this kind of project and also she had experienced mental health issues in her own way, so having someone that knew the sort of feelings I was experiencing made it easier.
Siobhan :)
09/02/21