Study Task 7 - Rationale

• What is your theme?
• How are you exploring it visually (methodology)?
• Why are you doing it this way?
• Materials?

I begun by looking into weather or not the artist has status and their place within society, which evolved into looking at weather fine art or commercial art has more status in society. I am currently visually exploring what separates the two art forms, causing them to be valued differently and the relationship between value and status. I am specifically looking into the transition between the mass produced and the one off by taking mass produced images and working into them, as well as redrawing them to make them one off. I am interested in weather authenticity is proportional to value as well as this concept of the artist's touch and its effect on value. I am currently using mainly collage and photoshop to visually translate my ideas but I would like to use a much wider range of media. I like the series drawings where I have taken a mass produced image and looked at how far I need to push it to make it one off. For the last 32 pages of my book I would like to push this exploration further by taking a single image and repeatedly retranslating it across many different media.