Sunday, 3 April 2016

Returning to use of cling film I spread it across the page, leaving room for a lot of glue underneath the piece then applying heat closely to the page. This, as I have mentioned in previous posts, led onto spray painting. Spray painting to me, is the almost definition of street art. It allows people to freely express themselves in a completely different way to how society as culture expects you express yourself. This highly interested me, it relates very well to the culture of Grime, at most of the Grime raves, and they way the culture is presented, there will often be a strong amount of graffiti within the background. This also lead me to thinking about colours, the use colours within spray paint are something which highly appeal to me, most places contain dark, deep colours, whereas I would like to look at using bright, intrusive colours. In addition to this, Wiley uses a strong use of colour, especially vibrant colours running throughout the background of his work. Classes are also associated  by colour, for example, gold, sliver and bronze. Straight away, as you read the word gold you relate it to the existence of something royal, with class and certainly with money. Therefore, I wanted to experiment with this idea, using gold spray paint and sliver, using such "pure" colours and tones to create graffiti which is something highly pushed aside by societal values, i.e. the government. The most ironic part of this experiment is when I went to buy the gold spray paint, I could only afford the sliver. The whole time I'd been thinking and talking about this class difference, preaching it in anger to myself and people around me, and yet, it still ironically applied in the exact same way to me. So, I bought the sliver, I will go back and buy gold, but I would preferably like to create a sketchbook of spray paint experiments so will leave it to a later date. I started by lightly applying the spray paint to this piece, having never used spray paint before, I was still get to grips with the piece. I felt it went well, and that is gave me the ability to build up my process of spray painting. 

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