Project Proposal Presentation

***notes for presentation**

1. CONTENT & RESEARCH

- folklore tales - how can I make oral history visual? can i? should i?
- folk stories have a long tradition of being used to make sense of the world and explain oddities in the landscape by using mythology and crazy characters and stories. Turning the ordinary magical
- been looking at folklore around the world and the fascinating similarities in the character tropes and lessons - eg Anansi the Spider character in Ghana, and the imp in Europe
- folklore tales = widen conversation about community and migration - eg Nordics and German influence in Britain and the folklore. - celebration of this

- So after tutorial with Matt - I've decided to write my own folk inspired stories and form a project around that. I've dabbled very briefly in writing before (6 memos cut up stories), but I've never made content for myself to respond to in this way before, pushing myself out of my comfort zone


2. PROCESS & METHODOLOGY

- my practice is interested in storytelling and language
- tangible and tactile
- respond to stories with characters and narrative
- I'm used to working small and comfortable in sketchbooks - how can I push myself?
- really enjoyed making COP book - using the perfect binder. joy and interest in making books in my practice
- as well as simply responding to my stories with imagery I'm interested in how I can elevate my image-making to other processes to elevate the story
- tapestries used in folk art - sequential image making - how can a story be told within the constraints of a tapestry?
- wood, 3D - bring story to life - how can I make my work exist on different scales - immersive and interactive
- basically want to learn new processes and try and exhaust the uni facilities as much as I can for one last chance


3. CONTEXT & APPLICATION

- the naivety and charm of folk art vs the traditional woodcut style seen in Western folk story anthologies.
- how can I respond to traditional folk story-telling processes and vehicles but in a contemporary and personal visual way

practioners:

Jesus Cisneros
- playfulness & charm
- responds to language personally
- importance of his imagination
- eccentric and exciting
- hands on and prolific
- oddity charming strangeness

Laura Carlin
- emotive storytelling
- human, sentimental
- preciousness
- smallest details within the bigger picture - what can she take from this concept that explains it in a subtle and beautiful way
- naive and intuative

Nous Vous / Adam Higton
- influence of folk art/naive art, applied in contemporary context

Hockney Grimm Fairytales
- fresh & new take
- beautiful and the ugly
- enticing eerie
- he said they were fascinating because the language of the actual stories is so simple and direct and yet they cover such a range of experiences - magical to the moral

Evelyn Ackermann
- tapestries of flat large shape based imagery
- simplication of form
- rich
- tradition and sentimentality

What links these practitioners/influences?
- Fresh and engaging storytelling
- feels human
- Can see the influence folk has but they remain so personal


Speculative Outcomes

2 strands to my planned outcomes:

1. Write and respond to the tales - push my image making, respond to language, how can I push vehicles of storytelling and elevate the way I'm representing the tales

2. How can folklore traditions exist within the context of the everyday? Outward facing vehicle for celebrating culture and presenting and preserving oral tradition. Eg- Czech folk inspired matchbox labels - show the countries heritage in an accessible and widely circulated way

**Note - I had this idea before I decided to actually write my own stories - so I need to wok out how can I still achieve this if I'm not responding to actual existing folktales?**