In level 6 I am asked to work on a self directed project to find my own stance on themes which are more open to interpretation. I naturally went towards an authorstrator approach coming up with my own ideas and themes constructing them together. I chose to explore the word of Scary stories inventing my own story with random unusual characters that live a spontaneous world where on monsters exist there are no humans represented.
I started researching various scary nursery rhymes, films and books learning how children react to them exploring the mystical representations that they present communicating to an audience of how moral misbehaviour can have disastrous consequences. This made me think a lot about how we tell children these scary stories act so they do as they are told and listen to you when they are naughty and have done wrong.
Here are a few things I have been looking at as a starting point;
Marine Warner - No go the Bogeyman
Throughout these pages I have highlighted things that I feel are relevant that need to be explored further that are linked with fear and horror. This will also be used as reference to what has been influencing me throughout this project.
Throughout Warners prologue of this book she has shown images that she has referenced as scary and what might children might fear.
Here I have looked at images of what the bogeyman could look like also exploring nursery rhymes and the image next to it is a composition created by my 6 year old sister of her interpretation of the bogeyman.
Here are a few of my images that I have created exploring scary creatures and creating animals then putting them together to create something new experimenting with hybridity. However I felt this wasn't going where I wanted it to go so tried a different approach.
So I started investigating monster stories that were created as children's books for a new direction to attack this project. I Knew I wanted to use paper based materials throughout the use of collage but where to begin.
Here are a couple examples of children's books I looked at;
These are representations of friendly monsters!
This Book is called 'Eric' I found this creature very inspiring and unusual especially the viewpoints that a produced to make the audience feel how small he is exploring scale.
