BOOKBINDING:

(Made that on illustrator when I was bored!)

This was my first time bookbinding unlike the rest of viscom because I hadn't done it in my first year. I learnt a lot, two different types of bookbinding and made these (plus two more using the same two binding techniques):

BETHLEM IDEAS:

Photography.
Someone in a psychiatric hospital or a recreation of one.
In illustrator chains drawn onto the photograph as if the subject is fictitiously tied up.
Representing the change from old to pres

NEW IDEA:

This is Bethlem Hospital, a psychiatric hospital situated close to where I lived in London. There is much history to this hospital, which first opened in 1337. Patients were chained to the floor back then for their safety and was named Bedlam. The noise was "so hideous, so great; that they are more able to drive a man that hath his wits rather out of them." I found it interesting the way that mentally ill patient were treated back then, they were called lunatics until the 1700's, in the 18th century people used to go to Bedlam to stare at the 'lunatics'. Visitors were permitted to bring long sticks with which to poke and enrage the inmates. In 1814 alone, there were 96,000 of these visits. The way that a collection of people are stereotyped and placed in a hospital chained up and forgotten about.

POP-UP MUSEUM:

I went with others from viscom to the new pop-up museum in the Merrion center. This was a really cool experience, the whole museum was a bit make-shift which was brilliant as you don't see things like that every day. A couple of viscommers helped out with decor which looked wicked. And I learnt about fossils.
This was interesting to see how different collections can be presented and that collections are in everything, the museum was small collections within bigger collections all collected in a shop in a collection of shops.

PROTEST DEVELOPMENT:

After having a discussion with Nick and Christian on my protest idea they thought it would be a good idea to look at the people behind the protests, in their own habitats. Taking photos of protests is a bit of a pain as they're not constantly going on and therefore I'm not constantly taking photos. However I don't feel the other idea grabs me enough to do a whole project on it.
Therefore...back to square one....