Isolation

I’ve been thinking about vignettes or compartments….possibly apartments. Isolation, and what everyone is doing in their homes on their own.

I mean…not like that. Maybe kind of like that

I did wonder a bit about compartmentalising both ourselves and parts of ourselves and what that might look like in relation to lockdown. And how that might look in an illustration

Maybe left to their own devices, people are actually discovering themselves? Like they didn’t need to travel to India to find themselves – they just needed three months pandemic induced isolation – OR MORE LIKELY everyone just spent most of the time laying on the floor

I’ve been working on a few illustrations, I discovered that as people have been isolated, they’ve mostly moved online – there’s a few places (specifically r/drawmeNSFW ) offering themselves up as models for drawing. I didn’t know this was a thing and it needs looking into. Who wants anonymous strangers to draw them naked?

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I’m having some good fun with the unashamed way a lightbox literally illuminates an illustration – you can’t emphasise anything further than making it light up.

Attention seeking advertising tools – and I never thought of it before but you can just BUY them and use them. No one stops you

Someone could juxtapose the isolation of parts of someone’s personality, with brash advertising illumination, if someone wished. If someone knew what juxtaposition meant, which I don’t

I’ve been informed that vignettes means; a series of short scenes, that make up a larger work. I don’t know if that’s right. But I thought a lot about a cube shaped structure of single illuminated images – making up a block of flats-style window into little narrative snapshots

But I also thought how expensive it would be to buy 9 light boxes – so more on this project IF I get any money haha