Personal Investigation (Theme/topic decision) 

Reaching Year 13, our class had to research and decide what we wanted to do for our personal investigations, our personal investigations are a major and significant part of our overall grade in Fine Art. Therefore, we knew a lot of thought and effort was needed for this big project.

To start we were guided to a final decision of our PI by getting asked what medias we enjoyed using and had a great skill in. I decided that I had a great skill in painting and drawing, however I had to keep the idea that I would still have to do a mixture of media development throughout my work. In addition, the main factor of the personal investigation is the theme. The theme is the main aspect of the project that I need to achieve the most. To choose my theme I did a wide research into things that provided the use of creating my own original designs and something that I believed I could go down many routes with and create and come up with many initial ideas to develop into a excellent final outcome.

 

My first initial idea was to do something in relation with racism as I wanted my PI to have a meaning/message that would therefore have an effect on people. Racism has had a deep effect on me and my family and so I have a deep passion to develop something that would make a difference on certain views in society. Although, this first idea wasn't greatly successful due to the fact that I struggled to get a lot of research specifically on art to do with racism and plus because there was a short variety of pieces/artists, I knew it was going to be too much of a challenge to develop a great PI to do with this topic, considering this topic was so broad I expected more. Next, I did further thinking and research and decided I wanted to creating meaning and a deep message within my work, I liked the idea of creating a meaning through art and designs, that's when I came up with the idea of tattoos.

Tattoos are a unique and interesting way to develop meaning and symbolize something significant, just through the idea of pressing coloured inks into the skin lasting a life time. There are many directions I could go with this theme, as there are a wide variety of different styles and designs ranging from minimal to highly detailed designs, that could therefore easily inspired me to create my own. There are many different tattoo artists and designers all over the world which means my research etc. was going to be easy to locate and moreover help me with development and ideas. There is an extreme variety of different styles and designs; minimal, retro, henna etc. and overall I believe I could go far in this investigation. These are the main reasons why I will be pursuing my Personal Investigation in the theme of tattoos, which I have further explained in my sketchbook as shown.