"Do You Want
The Truth
Or Something
Beautiful?!"
This project was our self directed 3 month project, the last 3 months of Second Year. This was a chance to experiment with as many different creative processes as we could in order to see what suited us, what worked for us and essentially what we are good at.
The concept behind my project was that when you are young, the first stories that you are told are in essence fiction! I'm talking about Fairytales. This gives a young child idealistic views on the world where they expect to live like royalty, a world where all the bad guys are caught and locked up, and where you live happily ever after. As my project progressed, the truths that you learn throughout life get harsher and uglier, the advice that you're given becomes less and less optimistic and reality is nothing like it is in the Fairytales. I did no want to, however, just portray the obstacles people face along the way and portray a negative view of the world, I wanted to show how your outlook on the world does a 360. In your old age you look back with no regrets, a face full of wrinkles from all the smiling and laughing, skin broken and cracked from all the harsh conditions you encountered along the way and a glimmer in your eye because you wouldn't change any of it for the world. . .
The project is layed out as a fairytale, and this is how the story goes:
"Once upon a time, in a land not so far, far away, there lived a little Fairy Princess.
Foretold of her Prince Charming, she insisted that Daddy was the only boy for her;
I'm marrying my daddy today 'cause I love my daddy!
He's a lovely boy, the only boy I'll ever marry.
Unfortunately. . .
The little Fairy Princess soon learned a harsh lesson;
that Daddy should have always been the only boy for her
as Daddy is the only man she can trust. . .
And so the little Fairy Princess and her Prince Charming
did not live happily ever after together. . .
Not this time.
This little Fairy Princess grew up to be a very wise Queen,
sharing many words of wisdom;
Perhaps my best years are gone,
but I wouldn't want them back,
not with the fire in me now"
I love incorporating both images and text together and got my inspiration from famous quotes by the likes of Hans Christian Anderson to Aristotle to George Bernard Shaw to Samuel Beckett.
The concept behind my project was that when you are young, the first stories that you are told are in essence fiction! I'm talking about Fairytales. This gives a young child idealistic views on the world where they expect to live like royalty, a world where all the bad guys are caught and locked up, and where you live happily ever after. As my project progressed, the truths that you learn throughout life get harsher and uglier, the advice that you're given becomes less and less optimistic and reality is nothing like it is in the Fairytales. I did no want to, however, just portray the obstacles people face along the way and portray a negative view of the world, I wanted to show how your outlook on the world does a 360. In your old age you look back with no regrets, a face full of wrinkles from all the smiling and laughing, skin broken and cracked from all the harsh conditions you encountered along the way and a glimmer in your eye because you wouldn't change any of it for the world. . .
The project is layed out as a fairytale, and this is how the story goes:
"Once upon a time, in a land not so far, far away, there lived a little Fairy Princess.
Foretold of her Prince Charming, she insisted that Daddy was the only boy for her;
I'm marrying my daddy today 'cause I love my daddy!
He's a lovely boy, the only boy I'll ever marry.
Unfortunately. . .
The little Fairy Princess soon learned a harsh lesson;
that Daddy should have always been the only boy for her
as Daddy is the only man she can trust. . .
And so the little Fairy Princess and her Prince Charming
did not live happily ever after together. . .
Not this time.
This little Fairy Princess grew up to be a very wise Queen,
sharing many words of wisdom;
Perhaps my best years are gone,
but I wouldn't want them back,
not with the fire in me now"
I love incorporating both images and text together and got my inspiration from famous quotes by the likes of Hans Christian Anderson to Aristotle to George Bernard Shaw to Samuel Beckett.