Analysis of the spoken word

This project was to develop listening and image processing skills to produce a final piece of imagery of our own interpretation of the spoken word.By using mind mapping and various ways of thinking it helped me to create a direction of where my work was going.

My starting point was to listen to the recording and note down any stand out information i could visualise.

The most famous, though least public perfomance of The March of the Women occured in Holloway prison in London in 1912: over 100 suffragists, including Emmaline Pankhurst and Ethel Smyth, who in March 1912 had smashed windows of suffrage opponents' homes in well-coordinated simultaneous incidents all over London, were arrested, tried, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Ethel Smyth found her time in prison an exalting experience of communal determination and sacrifice by women of all ages and classes. One day, while the prisoners were taking their outdoor exercise, Ethel Smyth appeared at a window overlooking the prison yard, and conducted their singing of the suffrage battle anthem by waving her toothbrush. I felt that this act was almost flash mob like, as one person starts signing more and more join. With a great interest in bands i couldn't help but visualise Ethel Smyth to be this energetic lead signer in a band. (using her tooth brush as a mic).

Wth feminist symbols engraved in the walls and a dark and dingy cell, i feel like i as able to capture the spirit of the suffragettes. "I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN".

amplifies to 100 years later , {speaker}

After researching and finding out the Suffragettes, used to bomb post boxes as a way of political protest, it triggered the response of the suffragettes being terrorists of their time, this defiance to the crown related to the IRA defiance in order to have political change (one method of doing so...terrorism). Below is my illustrative depiction of a Suffragette, sabotaging the mail box.

I like the colour scheme used as it gives a warm and earthy feel to such a dangerous and criminal act.

I took an alternative approach to my work and mainly focused if colour and texture, The work is more simplistic but i feel works at conveying a message.

Force-feeding was used on Suffragettes who were sent to prison but then went on hunger strike. Force-feeding was traditionally associated with those held in asylums and who could not feed themselves. Used on women who were usually well educated, it was a controversial method frowned on by many members of the public.

Similar to the delicacy foie gras, which is heavily frowned apon

Birds raised for foie gras spend the first four weeks of their lives eating and growing, sometimes in semi-darkness. For the next four weeks, they are confined to cages and fed a high-protein, high-starch diet that is designed to promote rapid growth. Force-feeding begins when the birds are between 8 and 10 weeks old. For 12 to 21 days, ducks and geese are subjected to gavage—every day, between 2 and 4 pounds of grain and fat are forced down the birds’ throats by means of an auger in a feeding tube.From this i wanted to depict the Suffragettes as Geese as they would face a similar fate.

Making of a Man exhibition, on arrival of this private viewing i was given a gift bag which included the lasted edition of IT's NICE THAT's Printed Pages, a creative collective of illustration and graphics.The exhibition show cased work that was created on the day from life drawing classes with the idea of challenging masculinity.You could even go as far to say that this challenging of gender roles compliments the suffragettes movement.

Also in the Gift bag was a screen printed poster from their in house illustrator Alec Doherty, i wanted his style to influence my outcome, in his work he puts the male subjects on a podium like platform and makes them seem happy, in my work i want to also replicate the platform to show importance but also express the emotional upset caused by the treatment of suffragettes and geese.I wanted to use the colours of the Suffragettes movement Purple White Green and gold in the final image.