Final post

This is my final post. The project in my eyes has been a success, I have produced an artefact that involves the movement of migrants and the sex industry in which many of them fall into.
By doing this I now have the knowledge of this subject and looking through my sketchbook and research I have now come to notice that its not just about prostitution, I also think it touches on the subject of feminism.
I think this because many of my sketchbook work is'nt about the sex industry, but about the brutality of women and the pain that some men inflict on their partners or other women.
I may take this subject on to another project of mine because I want to explore it in more detail.

Gallery

The subject matter that I was looking at for this project has been very in depth and it has enlightened me about migrants in the sex industry.
I think I have challenged the brief and my proposal with me researching different aspects of migrants in the sex industry, the way that they are moved around the world and how they are treated as human beings. I chose the subject because it s not a topic that many people know about, so I thought I would take this as an opportunity to produce an artefact around it. I could have researched much more and I think it has let me down in the build up to the artefact so in the future I will make this top of my list.
I think my poetry has become stronger since previous projects and I'm glad that I have incorporated it into this project. The poem is the many body of my work, so I have had to make it very in depth about the subject of migrants, but not offensive and blue about the subject of the sex industry. I have found that it was easier to produce an artefact with the help of my poem. I don't think I would change anything to my poem, but I would think about adding more to it. With meeting the brief and the proposal I think that was also success with me incorporating movement into my poem.
When looking for research about migration , I found that many of them ranged from around the world for example Thailand, Nigeria and Albania. Just looking at the places many came from, it started to give me ideas for my sketchbook and it also made me think about the welfare of the women and that is the reason why in some of my ideas I have given black eyes to the women in my work. Next time I would research about migration and migrants in depth to produce more ideas on the same level that I have already produced.
The research that I found which was about the sex industry really opened up my mind and it helped me with producing the artefact and the poem.
I found a pie chart showing that 46% of migrants end up in prostitution, that is nearly half and with many of them being children. I wanted to explore this subject because its a subject that I didn't know much about and the same with many others. Next time I would research much sooner, for I feel I needed a higher understanding about the subject.
My sketchbook is very active with experiments and of which I am proud of. There are some things that I would have done differently like producing some experiments for my final piece a bit more carefully and produced them in a higher standard to make my sketchbook look much more artistic. I think that the sketchbook that I have produced has to be some of my best work to date and I would to take the subject matter on to projects in the future.
Looking through my sketchbook I find that many of my ideas are different to the other, this is one aspect I like about my sketchbook. My experimental pieces range from different looks, but they are all about the same thing with the medias kind of staying the same.
There are certain pieces that I would have liked to have taken on to the final artefact like some of the pen and ink drawings were I have freely used the pen to produce a sketch. Another piece would be to have produced a picture like the one in my sketchbook that was inspired by Zak Smith and put that on to the artefact, just to show a range of techniques.
I think my final outcome of the artefact that I produced was very strong and the way I approached it was a way that I would like to take on board to the next projects that I will be taking part in. There are some things that I would have done differently like choosing an idea much sooner so that I would have more time to produce an artefact at a standard that I feel could have been better. Even though making these changes would have helped, I think the artefact I have produced has met my proposal and the brief.
In conclusion the project has been a success, in my point of view the artefact I have produced is up to a standard that I think is suitable for an audience. I have stuck to my proposal, with doing this it has helped me to produce the artefact that I wanted, I could have been more strict with myself and followed the brief a bit better this may have let me down.
There are some things that I should have done differently like researching migration to get a in depth knowledge this could have helped me get an idea quicker. But although doing all of this would have helped me get a quicker idea, the timing of making process was good.
I am pleased with my sketchbook work, I think I have produced some of my best work for this project and I want to take this on to future projects. With the subject that I chose it has opened my mind and I have become more independent in my work.
The aim of this project was to explore migrants in the sex industry and I feel that I have met these aims by producing and artefact with meaning and independents.

Final Outcome

This is my final outcome for this project. At the begining I wanted to have a surreal look to the artefact, so working on the experiments in my sketchbook I came up with this idea.
I wanted to show the movement of migrants as a story, so I incorporated my poem by using each line as a drawing/sketch. I have liked the way i've worked for this project and the artefact has came out the way I wanted it.

A Final Idea

I think I have got my idea finalised and I now have a clear path way that I want to go down. After my fellow classmates had given me an idea of using pornography magazines for the use of my sketchbook I played around with the idea and produced some interesting experiments. But for my final piece I have decided to scrap the pornography and choose a more 'clean' piece of work. The idea that I've got in my sketchbook is that using the poem that i have written incorporate it in a way using pictures or symbols for a line of the poem.

For example

• "Her eyes glow like the sun"- I've shown an eye in the sky with a yellow lighting fallen from the eye

This is another piece from my sketchbook. The red hand print was just an idea it does have a meaning to me, but to other people it may have a meaning. This piece is suppose to show migrants in the sex trade.
As you can see in the middle of her legs i have put my poem in between.

Sketchbook Piece

This is a piece of work from my sketchbook. It portrays that many migrants in the sex trade have a rough time and some can be badly hurt or even worst killed. So in the piece I have taken a picture from a magazine of a model, painted on the picture giving her a black eye and smudged make up to indicate that she has had a rough night.

The poem coming out of her vagina is one that I have written about prostitution. The rainbow waves have no meaning, just thought of the idea.

I think this piece has some inspiration from Wangechi Mutu, so this is why i am going to look at her work closer and get more of an understanding of the pieces of work she produces.

Indurated Ulcers of the Cervix by Wangechi Mutu

Pasting images taken from porn and fashion magazines over a prudish diagram of vaginal infections, Wangechi Mutu examines the perception of female sexuality. Her amalgamated portrait capitalises on the contradictions of role expectations: as western media ideal, sex goddess, and mother. Contorted in anger and crowned by black diamond dust, Mutu’s figure becomes both victim and warrior, alluding to the repercussions of female exploitation in both Africa and the west: from prostitution to sexual war crimes.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/wangechi_mutu.htm

This is the work by contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu, i have looked at her work and have taken some inspiration from it and incorporated it into my work.

Rough Copy of Poem and Charles Bukowski

Her eyes glow like the sun.
Made contacted with mine they did stun.
This girl intelligent but wild as they cum.
Stood in the corner and hummed a sweet song.
Her figure like a stained glass window.
Her mouth a hardcore porno.
But her eyes, her eyes are infections with every blink kills your soul.


Big Night On The Town

drunk on the dark streets of some city,it's night, you're lost, where's your room?you enter a bar to find yourself,order scotch and water.damned bar's sloppy wet, it soakspart of one of your shirtsleeves.It's a clip joint-the scotch is weak.you order a bottle of beer.Madame Death walks up to youwearing a dress.she sits down, you buy her abeer, she stinks of swamps, pressesa leg against you.the bar tender sneers.you've got him worried, he doesn'tknow if you're a cop, a killer, amadman or anIdiot.you ask for a vodka.you pour the vodka into the top ofthe beer bottle.It's one a.m. In a dead cow world.you ask her how much for head,drink everything down, it tasteslike machine oil.you leave Madame Death there,you leave the sneering bartenderthere.you have remembered whereyour room is.the room with the full bottle ofwine on the dresser.the room with the dance of theroaches.Perfection in the Star Turdwhere love diedlaughing.

This is poem by Charles Bukowski. I have found that his poetry very raw and understandable, this is a way that I try and work when it comes to my poetry.
I have found that the poem above has’nt got any relation to mine,but it has one line that could relate and that line is “Madame Death walks up to you wearing a dress”. I could compare Madame Death to a migrant in the way that the poet has used movement in this line.

Why Prostitution

For my project I wanted to do something different something that would make people thing about something they don't really know about. So thats why I chose prostitution, its a subject that I have'nt studied before and I thought for this project I would take the opportunity.
I'm wanting to incorporate my own poetry in to the artefact, but seeing as I have no knowledge of the subject this maybe difficult.
For ideas, I have yet to come across any inspiration but researching will help me. I am looking forward to producing an artefact on this subject because I will also learn from it and I hope that others will too.