Marie Jacotey is a French artist that creates pencil drawings, illustrating scenarios or stories. She uses captions to place the images into context, and are often blunt and personal.
For the artist visiting today, our primer was to choose photographs we had taken, and pick 5 in these categories:
1. Character
2. Object
3. Space
4. Artwork
5. Furniture
The first task was to combine these images into one image, a location or setting containing the character.
This is my outcome, a mixture of all the above images:
I chose this as the composition as it contained features of different cultures, such as the ivory carving piece, the photograph of the frog in the rainforest and the background of fruit crates. My image is somewhat abstracted, as the character I turned into a picture frame, similar to some of Jacotey’s works. I wanted to create the essence of a jungle inspired area, as this was the connection I drew between my photographs.
From this, we had to imagine a title or caption that would connect with the new image. I believed that the image almost reflected a part of me, and my wanting to travel and be in nature, and so, titled the drawing
“LONGING TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE”.
Subsequently, we had to create a sequence of images from starting with writing the text first, then drawing the images, using the drawing above as a starting point. I decided to use the frog character and focus on that aspect.
The outcome is somewhat… quirky.
I was pleased in the outcome of my sequence, as it was unexpected and I had not planned the sequence to go anywhere specifically, it led itself as I drew each image. Similarly with the text, the rhyming was not pre-planned, but came to me as I was creating the drawings. A sort of spontaneous thinking that cannot be taught.
My artwork also got complimented by some of the students, saying that it was an unexpected turn for the story to go, and surprised the reader. The simple subject of a frame adjustment contributed to the story immensely, and I was pleased with this.
Becky.
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