Journeys

First project of the year, our brief was to use 15 playing card sized to portray a journey.

Since this was the first project, I felt it was an opportunity to reflect a part of me, introduce myself and show my personal journey.

I thought about the idea of portraying 15 significant events in my life onto each of the individual cards. Although this would represent me and give a good introduction and background to me, it doesn't necessarily represent a journey, not to mention the fact that we only had one night to complete the task!

I then decided on using a single event in my life which ironically was journey itself. A physical journey that I made when I relocated from my hometown to where I am now, which, to me, changed my life completely, I met my current partner, moved into our own house, bought a dog and had a child. I then discovered what I ultimately wanted to do in life was art & design, and am now pursuing this at university. I do believe that had I never made that journey I would be in a completely different situation to where I am now, so it really is significant to me.

My idea was to use a map showing my physically journey's route, split into 15 sections. I didn't want to leave the cards as separate units as I felt a journey should be represented as a chain of steps. So to incorporate this idea I stung the pieces together using string.

This piece of work has quite a rough feel to it, the limited timescale did play a part in this but I also wanted to portray the fact that in my life journeys I deliberately don't like to plan too much, I very much believe in fate and my life's journey is effectively a series of seemingly random steps when looked at individually looked at but ultimately it builds one full piece at the end.