here’s some decent quality photos of my exam piece for art! I picked the exam title “gesture” and it kept invariably leading me back to Weimar Germany (expressionism, silent cinema, for some reason Peter Lorre ended up in my sketchbook repeatedly) so I was like “hey you know which period of history I have the most personal interest in? it’s totally Weimar Germany” and made an installation piece I guess tying myself to that? a lot of the surfaces I used were reproductions of really cool artefacts from the period which we have in the family - German and Austrian banknotes, a postcard written in Yiddish to my great-grandfather (who made a lot of money buying antiques in the Weimar under hyperinflation and then selling them in the uk at normal prices weyyy), his passport, this amazing old road atlas of Europe from 1930.

it’s meant to look like an actual space in use and the actual final final installation that I don’t have photos of has more objects on it, including quite a lot of the stuff I was actually using to make it and the little bits of written commentary are… maybe witty? i was trying to be lighthearted. i think the aim of it is just “man I really really love illustration and I really really love so many things that came from the Weimar look how beautiful all of this is damn.” 

also I was only semi-aware of that photo being taken of me also the blue plastic school chair is not part of the installation lmao

so yeah i’m pretty proud of this because it’s like… good to look at and it does actually have some degree of personal… something going on. yay.