https://www.artsy.net/artist/liu-bolin

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-dutch-lifes-dark-secrets-hide-exotic-delicacies

Jan Davidsz de Heem

https://www.rodiscover.com/culture/a-food-journey-through-romanian-painting/

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/225461525065870952/?d=t&mt=login

https://www.artsy.net/artist/liu-bolin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denim

https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2018/03/22/boro-style

https://www.thoughtco.com/1912-lawrence-textile-strike-3530831

surveyors history

miners history denim

https://www.hawthornintl.com/history-of-denim

https://www.karlheinzweinberger.com/about/

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/serrano-andres/

I started making samples out of denim and I wanted to think about how I could make it worn out and how to distress the fabric.

 And so I started by taking out the individual strings of denim after cutting the fabric on the side and I thought it looked interesting. It made me think if I could then weave with the strands of denim but they were too short and they would rip too easily. I really liked the idea of trying to reweave the string and to see ow I could take that to the next level. I also thought about using sand paper to rip the fabric and I liked the puff around the edges that was created when using the sandpaper to rub it on the fabric abut it took long for the fabric to come apart and I didn't think that it was successful as I thought it would be. 

Also I wanted to use some kind of rock powder to make the jeans look like they have been worn by a miner but the problem is that I don't know where to find it yet. and so I will have to find solutions for that. 

Another really interesting photographer I was looking at was Karl Heinz weinberger. What I really liked was that he was photographing really interesting details and I thought they would help when I will start thinking about hopefully making a garment or part of one. Like for example zipper details or jacket pockets and the characters that he was photographing had this 90s vibe which I think fits in perfectly with my theme. 

For now I want to be still pretty open interns of ideas and themes. I also want to start looking more into jeans details like pockets, fit etc. 

After doing some more research on mining and miners and I really liked the idea of them working in the mine and then having to wipe their hands on the jeans and the stains from the rock power and and the worn out look was really interesting and so I want to start thinking about how I can make my denim look very worn out and distressed like was worn ages ago. 

I continued with my denim research and I found out that mostly miners would wear denim to work and I thought can could merge in really well with the idea of the Lawrence strike and food because miners were also exposed to the danger of the roof collapsing at any time like the building where the factory workers were living. 

I started looking at Adres Serrano,

"The imagery and content of Serrano's work is often a challenge to mainstream propriety or sensibilities. He produces images that combine the sacred, such as religious iconography, with the what might be called the profane: sex, bodies and their fluids, poverty, death, and/or violence. Even his studio portraiture presents controversial subjects in highly stylized ways, framing a homeless person or a loaded gun in the same way as they might be the subject in a Renaissance portrait or classical still-life."

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/serrano-andres/

What I really liked about his work is that especially in the early works series, he has perfectly expressed the idea I stated to think about when thinking about the history of denim and the food I ate during Christmas break. And that is because I was thinking about the Lawrence textile strike in 1912 where on one of the signs they write "they asked for bread, they received bayonets" and I thought that was really interesting because the people were starving the conditions they were in were vey poor and more than that they were in danger because of the building they were living in. And so that and the food is very ironic and actually disturbing because kids couldn't survive over the age of 6 and so for me to have a beautiful Christmas meal makes me think of how grateful I am. 

I then started looking at artists that inspire me like bands, art movements and designers.

I love the 90s, the style and the music and so I did research about what songs/bands I listen to from the 90s. Like Joan Osborne, Drill,The Martinis.The Cranberries.

What I love about these bands/artists is the textural felling of the sings and they're very layered like my style and while I listen it makes me wanna work with layering more in my design development etc. 

Also I then started looking into the grudge movement "Grunge. It's a word that became synonymous with the Seattle sound. It's a word that was used to describe a number of different “alternative” bands from the region in 1980s, and then also into the 1990s with bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Mudhoney and Screaming Trees.(0

While I was doing my inward outward project, while I was reading the brief I tried to think of ideas. And so things that stood out to me in the brief was when it said to analyse yourself and your own behaviour I started thinking about the things that I like to photograph the most, and things like receipts and travel.

I tried to print out as much information about what I did during the Christmas break and the most "research" was about the food I was eating during the break. I thought that was interesting because we have traditional food that we eat during Christmas like sarmale or a specific type of salad, turkey etc. And the idea came to me when I was helping out my dad and he threw away the leftovers that he couldn't use to cook. 

and the colour palette was interesting and I thought that it might be a good idea inward outwards

Over the Christmas break, I tried to finish all my previous work so I can then start thinking about the inwards outwards project. 

When I first read the brief what stood out to me was that we have to dig deep into ourselves and try to find out what defines who we are and the habits we have developed like what route do we take to uni and maybe our daily routine etc. 

I started thinking about the food I ate during the break because my dad was cooking for the Christmas dinner and he threw away the peeled skin of some carrots and some other vegetables that he cut up and I thought the color palette looked really interesting and so I started researching and taking pictures of the food that I ate and the places we bought it from. 

I also started thinking about the music I listen to and how I travel from one location to the other.