ATA: Creating the scenes

It was only after I had read three of his novels (after dark, Norwegian Wood and Colourless Tsaski)  that I decided on a theme to carry through into my finals. 

After reading them I knew that I wanted to create the same kind of isolation that Murakami creates in his works, so I knew I wanted to create work that where space and composition was considered. Time is a strong running theme throughout Murakami's work so that needed to come into that somehow. 

Discovering collage as a medium was a lucky accident really, I was stuck on how to manifest how I felt about Murakami's work and when I used some left over mono prints to create a new piece of work it communicated all the things I had hoped for. 

The distorted background and varying shapes allowed for me to display a distorted sense of reality and time which worked really nicely alongside a lone character on the page. 

I continued to create sketches from the scenes in the books that stood out to me and from them started to make compositions.