Own practice reflection- Recycled

Recycled
Practicing what I preach

Using found imagery and objects to use as backgrounds/components for other art (sketches or ideas).

Found book- 'Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld instituetes' Volume 32



After looking through this book I discovered pages on Rome and Roman artifacts/historical documentation. This seemed fitting after my recent trip to Rome. Much of the imagery were objects I had seen myself within the country and historical grounds. 
The pages therefore offered themselves as backgrounds and tools to hold a new message. As my essay for this unit focuses upon the historical irony of continual societal issues and structural tensions. I decided that this 'backdrop' use for the images was fitting. The use of modern 'style' over the top of the images demonstrates the conflict between the past and present. These rough works helped me to integrate my  concepts with my morals as the recycled paper laid a background to my personal artistic interest in the functioning (psychologically) of the brain in response to art (and new information). 

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