I've decided to just go for it. I really want to do something that I personally enjoy so, I'm going to just create work and get it to fit the brief. I've kind of gone with the social unacceptability of out of order aka taboo. But in a really parisian noir gothic kind of way.
I wanted to draw two thing that I like to draw. Women and Monsters. The idea of a forbidden 'love' between the two that is more symbolic than crude has become the point of this.
I had this idea of someone looking at the image in a old parisian cafe as they retell the tale of the image to an american journalist looking for inspiration in europe. And after they tell this fantastical tale of the blurred lines between the personification of female innocence falling in love with this deformed monstrosity representing death they'd take a long drag from their cigarette in its long black holder and say "to fall in love with death, is truly, out of order'
I know it's a bit convoluted but having these narrative tales in my head can really help create the passion and drive behind a project. I started to sketch things out and a major thing with this one was composition and shape. The contrast between tall and long and short and wide silhouettes mimics the contrast within what the subjects represent.
This also draws upon my spooks a week as I wanted to create a more advanced narrative scene similar to the way I am wanting to advance my lino cuts. Another similarity is the fact that I will be pushing my lino cutting again in creating a reduction with this piece. Keeping with the narrative background of this in my head the image will be black and grey. Creating this simplistic parisian gothic aesthetic to the piece.
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