Suffolk Studies

It was my expectation that the end product of my course project would relate to the transformation of the Southbank. However over the course of the winter holidays my focus shifted considerably. Visiting Suffolk I was surrounded by evidence of storm damage. Compared to the changes of the Southbank, I found these sights of destruction to ultimately be the more arresting in that they were capable of communicating a change that had occurred without any need for comparisons to the landscape’s earlier state.

Stormdamage photos

I maintained the use of brightly clashing coloured inks to capture the environment as I felt that they evoked the surreal nature of certain scenes and their own striking juxtaposition. An example of this would be the boat, left stranded in isolation within an expansive field; having been washed in a flood then remaining after the water had receded. As such, I depicted the boat in an alien mixture of yellow and blue against a primarily green field.

Suffolk Studies

This separation of elements within the compositions persisted into my final outcome for the course. It was suggested that I animate some of the scenes in a simple manner in order to make the images more dynamic. In doing so, I divided the compositions into elements that moved and elements that remained static (for example, the wheat of the field swaying against the stationary form of the boat), attempting to communicate the sense of the elements not belonging together. Likewise, I exaggerated the clash of colours by allotting a single bright colour to each element; however the scenes ultimately benefitted from a grounding compositional element of grey, ultimately creating a scene that maintained a kind of realistic weight despite its intended weirdness.

Animation frames