I also experimented with different views and perspectives and created artworks in relief as seen in my piece Snapshots, a series of small drawings placed on different depths of cardboard, paper and carton.
The exhibition space was a large linear wall divided into sections with two directions from which viewers could enter to view my work. I thus decided to place my large-scale piece off-centre on the wall so that from one entrance the viewers could appreciate it first without the piece being overwhelming and taking away the effect of my other pieces. I then decided to group my smaller pieces by materials and format. I placed my charcoal drawing, watercolour painting, concertina and Snapshots in the same sections of the wall. I then grouped my two figurative canvas paintings as they are of similar size and shape and thus compliment each other. I also chose to place my pieces on different levels up and down the wall to mimic the feeling of walking down a street so the viewer can notice the details of my pieces as one might notice the details of architecture in real life.
All my pieces intend to make the audience relive their memories through the familiarity of my subject matter. I also wanted to try and encapsulate the feeling of awe and curiosity about the details, colour and surface used in my figurative and abstract representations of architectural details and fragments of streets or landscapes. I intended the viewers to see fragments of reality in order to allow them to reconstruct the rest of the piece in a way that reflects their own experiences and the intimacy and comfort that comes from familiar places.