12/3/14

Today I carried on with my research. I carried on with looking into the Kate Domaille theory so I chose another story. This time I looked into the Cinderella narrative which is based on dreams. I looked further into the cinderella narrative reading over the Brothers Grimm version. I liked the idea of having the dreams aspect verse reality. I further found a quote from the 1950 film interpretation as follows:

"A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep." 

I felt that this quote reflected my idea nicely because it focusses on dreams and they're meaning giving it a depth. Also because I wanted to link in Levi Strauss' theory of binary opposites, therefore I thought I would look into dreams verse reality. I collected imagery from different artists mainly photographers that I felt represented these themes.

Furthermore carrying on with the dreams research I thought about the combination of dreams as in our hopes and dreams and what we dream of when we're asleep. I started brainstorming words what I associated with dreams my favourite were Hazy, Sparkly and Shiny.

This lead me onto brainstorming what fabrics I would use to represent these words, however I only looked at Hazy and Shiny as shiny and Sparkly are very similar. For hazy I found that translucent fabrics represented this best. Therefore I though about Latex, and luckily I had some Latex samples, so this was a good fabric although I am planning on going out one day next week to gather a larger variety of fabrics. The main fabric that I though about for shiny was metallics, but when I go out fabric shopping I will hopefully be able to find out some fabrics that represent this clearly and in a more interesting way.

After this I started to look into Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze mainly focussing on the Voyeursim VS Fetishism aspect. I then narrowed this down to how this is interpreted as the Madonna VS the Whore. I did this because these are two conflicting themes of binary opposites that related to the Strauss theory. I collected imagery that portrayed this idea in order for me to develop off of further.