Thursday, 11 December 2008

My Project- Cafe Culture

I am working on a project based on Manchester cafe culture. I began by going into places like Starbucks and Cafe Nero and also independent places like Cup and Odder bar. I took photos and drew sketches of the people i saw and also wrote down my feelings about them and what the atmosphere was like.
I want to show a similar emotion as the Parisian cafe painters, only using modern Manchester cafe imagery:- smokers stood outside the doors, people having meetings, reading alone, on laptops etc- through painting and collage.

I have been collecting paper cups from the cafes I visit, and changing their exteriors, documenting my cafe images and personal feelings onto them using painting, pen drawings, collage, screenprinting and letterpress. This is now creating a collection.
I now want to create collaged backgrounds onto which i can screenprint black line drawings and then letterpress words and phrases onto it which describe the atmosphere and so on.

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