Grayson Perry - Map of Days
On my focus of maps, I chose to approach this in a more emotional point of view than the literal sense of the word map. By doing so, I looked at Grayson Perry, an English artist known mostly for ceramics. For a programme titled "Grayson Perry: Who Are You?", Perry met up with individuals across the country and decpited a self portrait of them; using ceramics, tapestry and painting to portray them - the idea was the "portraits" were not meant to be taken as just a drawing of themselves, but more of their personailties and traits.His work is something that I've been inspired by, particularly his response to the map and how he creates his own interpretation of it - I would like to do something similar, maybe reflecting my life or including people in my life that branches off; I want to experiment with graphic styles or do something that requires a lot of time and effort, as usually I'm quite quick on Photoshop. I'd also like to possibly delve into making it interactive, or printing it off into a huge scale.
The Channel 4 Programme showed many examples of how Perry reflects a much more personal response to the work; his Map Of Days is a self portrait which shows street names coming off and important landmarks about his life, he writes traits about himself and the attention to detail is remarkable, shown below.
