Where I am at the moment.....

 So after beginning my project focusing on negative space, it has kind of merged with my other ideas involving space. I have been looking at the imprint/trace a human leaves within a space once they have moved through or left that space. I have been asking myself ' how do we influence the space we are in?' , 'do we leave a ghost-like trace behind us once we leave?' , 'do we imprint upon our space?'.... To begin with, last week , I found the easiest way to show this 'trace' was to focus on our movement through our space. I began to look at photographs of a human form moving through a  space (my talented little sister!) and focus on the space around her, looking at how she momentarily occupied this space.
 These quick drawings focused on negative space but I also tried to capture the sense of moving through a space quickly and the trace it leaves behind.

 This week I have begun to think not only of the trace we, as people, leave on a space but also of the imprint of a space on us, how it shapes us or effects us. After making lots of thumbnails and doodling ideas I feel like I will have a lot of avenues to explore with these ideas and I have been making a start.

 We had a group tutorial yesterday and I felt twice as excited and encouraged afterwards. I had been nervous about it but the feedback and discussing it in a group made me feel much better. I was flying through work afterwards....

 This is some of what I have been working on.... I try to put most things up on my wall so it doesn't look so bare. At least if I have a mental block I won't be (literally) left staring at a blank wall!!

So with this chalk sketch I was looking at how 'our space' or our environment influences us, how it imprints onto our lives....

 

This is sort of a staring point for something else, somewhere to go from......it's basically little drawings of my sister doing a back flip. This temporary, quick movement through a space made me think this image would work well with investigating our 'trace' within a space.

 

This is similar to the back flip images, except I drew each stage of movement upon one another to create a blurred, hazy 'just happened' trace of someone within a space.

 

 

This was originally part of my research journal. It is a badly photocopied image of a painting by Hope Atherton. When I looked at it there was something ghost-like about the photocopy, as if someone had just moved or left the space, so I drew back into the image to kind of exaggerate this.

 

My studio space, looking a little less empty!

 The image underneath the acetate is a painting I found on line which I worked into and over (on the acetate) to exaggerate the imprint left by the figures upon the space.

 

 This is the work that has made it onto my wall, I'm planning on getting photos up soon from my notebooks....