Project 2: FOREGROUNDS

FOREGROUNDS 

This project focused on the concept of foreground and looked at site elements for observation & recording.

Task 1 consisted of taking 5 photographs that were all within the same colour range. My chosen colour was green. My photos try to capture the pattern and texture of each object I have chosen to photograph. 

For task 2 I collected 5 objects with very contrasting shapes and characteristics, tying them together with one narrative, emphasising the use of juxtaposition. 

Below are my photographs taken for 

Task 1:

Green Gravel 

Algae

Grassy shrubs 

Moss

Mouldy leaves

Buxus sempervirens

Grasses

Task 2:

My objects consisted of a variety of different shapes and sizes that i found all washed up on the river bed of the Thames.

Below is the story of my narrative, entwining all of the objects into one short historical story.


A SHORT HISTORY...



1. An old steel rope

CHRISTOPHER
1880

He is an old steel rope who has travelled from China on a China tea clipper arriving in Greenwich for the first time in 1880. Once he arrived he didn't want to make the long journey home, but instead lived upon the Thames Riverfront helping to moor small barges and other vessels. This is how he met Antonia..

2. A small part of a ceramic pot washed up onto the riverside.

ANTONIA
1890

Antonia found herself abruptly discarded from a sailing ship as she did not meet the standards of the other terracotta urn's brought over from Italy. Sad, scared and lonely she met Christopher who welcomed her to England. 

3. The neck of a glass bottle.

HENRY
1920

Antonia and Christopher later married and had son Henry. Henry never adventured to the River but instead ended up working in a local brewery. He later began to enjoy drinking the beer far more than making it.

4. The bottom of an old milk/juice bottle

ANNIE
1940

Annie, Henry's niece felt bad for her Uncle and the life he was wasting away to beer. She worked in a bottle factory for fruit juices and milk so regularly gave him fruit juice to discourage his love of beer.

5. Fisherman's rope

ALEX
2000

Alex who was a distant cousin of Annie's found himself working along the riverside being the rope to fisherman's crates. He was always very wild and very confident and thought he often knew best always.. apart from when he ended up turning grey.


6. Part of some string used in at a construction site.

EMILY
2014

 Emily is a very grateful worker who is slender and pretty. She lacks confidence but is very good at her job which consists of carrying huge amounts of sand and concrete slabs to assist builders with their construction work.