After the megacrit and the great debate of gouache or collage. I have worked on a couple images trying to combine the two - some of them working, and others not so much. In some I really like the combination of photograph, painted characters and simple gouache textured patterns - for example the kettle image. I also really like what I've started to do compositionally - highlighting/ breaking down the format of the image through negative white space with plain grey tone cut paper - I this uses the format of the images in a really interesting way.
In terms of concept I've identified 4 key ideas that have grown/developed out of my thumbnails - a maze of murakami's imagination, his relationship with running and healthy lifestyle, his mixed influence of America and Japan (east and west), and his passions/obsessions presented through the metaphor of a 'big kettle'. I think the images contain symbols that effectively communicate these concepts, but need refining in terms of process, composition and format to make them complete.
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