Now I have my 30 boards painted white I decided to start experimenting with my collections on them.
Now I had a perfect square to work with I felt a bit restricted to where I could stick things and realised I was going to have to be quite strict to get the right composition and for them all to look similar. I think I had got too used to sticking my collections straight on the wall quite simply with blue tack and masking tape. Although I had arranged them on the wall they weren’t contained to a set space some were wider than others, sometimes the hair would be longer than others.
At first this idea began to be quite daunting as I had to get it right as I would have 30 pieces all looking like this time the degree show, so it was important that I figure out the right composition now. I began to play around with the composition for quite some time seeing what did and didn’t work.
My first idea was to keep the same sort of square composition as I tried to have on the wall however as the wipe is square shape and the other items aren’t it was hard trying to arrange them without the wipe appearing to take over the board.
I played around about the positioning of each of the collections. The make-up wipe was the one I felt I needed to arrange first due to the larger size than the rest. I tried positioning it to the side but I felt it made you focus too much on one side and not take as much notice as the rest which wasn’t what I wanted.
I also realised once experimenting with this arrangement why was I using my contact lens cases? My contacts, eyelashes, hair, cotton wool and wipe all have a personal trace of my remains on them. Whereas, the cases are obviously personal to me as they are what my lenses came out of, however they don’t contain my remains which I feel is the whole point in these boards. Therefore I started rearranging without these cases. I also got rid of the cotton wool with nail varnish on as I felt they were too inconsistent and would be hard to make all of the boards follow the same pattern if some had these on and some didn’t, so I felt it was best to leave them out altogether.
