Peckham Meets Indian Culture.

This three week project was also another topic I found to be quite exciting and fun, when it came down to the development of the work and experimenting with pattern and repeats.  I went out to find two concepts which would work together in some form to create one project. So I thought it would be much more interesting to find two concepts that were in contrast to each other, i took myself to a local area i find most fun and exciting yet is looked upon as quite a rough area a lot of gang formations and a place you wouldn't see yourself walking alone at night. However i tried to highlight Peckham in its positive lights and show that it isn't at all like this but full of culture and vibrance, a place which emits atmosphere and a community. Especially with its massive fish and meat markets oozing with colour as well as the endless amounts of fruit and vegetable stalls which take over most of Peckham. I took many primary photos of the area and also photos i had taken from Peckham on nights out where it is a fantastic night life for going for cocktails with your friends and local hidden clubs which are packed full with students from around south London. I mainly focussed on the train station as from time to time i always travel from Peckham to central London and find its station the main meeting point it has a beautiful feel to it form the symmetrical circular windows and the old brick which formulates the building. I also zoomed into key detail of the metal works which are the detailing around the windows of the station and used this as the key element to my digital prints. Another link i took form Peckham was the amount of hair salon shops that are com packed tightly next to each other row after row, i took the glitzy side of Peckham and picked part of a sign which incorporated sparkles and put this onto photoshop with the metal works from Peckham rye train station. I produced five digital prints from this, i got so carried away with focussing on the Peckham side i didn't manage to make a contrast with a different concept which i thought to be quite disappointing with myself. But however my prints came out successfully and so i carried the indian culture project out as a separate one.

It may have been a lot more interesting if i had interlinked Peckham and indian culture in some way, this could have worked if i had had another week to try and conjoin them in some way, but i didn't have enough time. So i decided to take the indian culture project and do the same as i did with the Peckham one i took elements on middle eastern jewellery from the British Museum and focused on intricate detailing of a specific piece of jewellery and experimented with my observational drawings repeating them and focussing on how i could possibly make this into a pattern if it was for an interior design, with the help from Daniel a tutor who worked with us on how the eye focusses on certain points of a piece when the eye leans more towards colour on a pattern and how to balance out a piece of work. This was a great technique learnt as now when it comes to creating a pattern i will focus more on layout and what works well when it comes to layering for example. I then scanned in my print and manipulated it on photoshop to create five different digital prints this was the most exciting bit of the project i have found something i never thought i would love so much, but the out comes were great and i adapted them to garments if they were put forward for fashion design prints.

Here are some images below of my Peckham project and culture project.