Foundation is finally over. It has been confidence building, exciting, productive and interesting - but also the most stressful, exhausting, testing few months I've ever experienced. For that I am so grateful. Out of everything I learnt this year the most important thing I came away with is that you get out what you put in. I surprised myself by coming away awarded with a Merit but I was utterly amazed that people actually wanted to buy my work - over the course of two weeks while the exhibition was up I made £164 just by selling my art. I now feel ready to take on my BA armed with all of the knowledge I have gained this year. 

We're now entering our final module at Foundation and for our final major project the word we have been given to work with is "Becoming".

be·com·ing  [bih-kuhm-ing]

adjective1.that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
suitable; appropriate; proper: a becoming sentiment. 3.any process of change. Aristotelianism. any change involving realization of potentialities, as a movement from the lower level of potentiality to the higher level of actuality.

For my photography project at Foundation I chose to make it a narrative of my Great Auntie and Uncle's home and their lives together. My Auntie passed away in February 2010 aged 86 and my Uncle passed away this year in July 2013, aged 92. My family have recently sold their house and we have since been moving their possessions and coming across a lot of interesting things, including old wartime photographs and belongings, special jewellery and old books. I took my own photographs and displayed all of my final images in a tan leather, old-fashioned, self-adhesive photo album and arranged them in an appropriate order. I chose to display my work in a photo album rather than installing it on the walls within the studio space because I wanted to run with the idea of family and family photo albums; I also wanted to have the complete piece of work personal to me which I could keep as it was originally displayed. If I'd installed the pieces in the studio I would have had to remove them eventually and they would consequently have no real home. Anyway, these are the three main photographs of my Auntie and Uncle that I used as the opening pages of my piece.