After submitting our proposals and changing my initial idea, I continued to explore how I wanted the project to eventually look and feel like.
A lot of what Naomi Klein writes about revolves around the rich and powerful exploiting, bullying and stepping on the poor and impoverished - So a big force imposing itself upon a little one. With a lot of these thumbs, I was trying to capture that opressiveness - showing some degree of scale or comparison between the rich and the poor. I played a lot with the idea of poor as food - carrying on from the idea of 'money as food', then kept simplifying it more and more.
At the same time I was also doing a lot of visual research into what sort of tone and visual look I wanted my prints to have too. I liked the idea of trying to keep them as clean and crisp looking as possible - a lot like Noma Bar's work, whilst finding a way to apply that to the aesthetic that screenprinting gives stuff - much like Lucy Ketchin does. I was also really keen on the way Pam Wishbow layers her colours and shapes - using simple layers to build up a complex image, with bits of translucent ink going on. All of these I thought would be appropriate to inform the creation of my own work.
With these in mind, I drew these as inital pieces to test out in Screen printing - again, keeping the Big vs Small theme going on, destined to become 2-colour screen-prints. Using photoshop, I seperated the layers over several documents and printed them in black and white to form a positive, which could then be exposed to create a screen to work on.
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