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During the beginning of this module I was a little daunted by the prospect of making a print out of 15 different elements and printing them to such a large size. I think this and the preconceptions I had about producing a photomontage lead me to have some difficulties coming up with some ideas for this project. So after some advice from Etie, I went to some galleries to gain some inspriation.

At the Portrait Gallery, one image that really appealed to me was a photograph of Lilly Cole by Miles Aldridge called ‘Like a Painting’.

After seeing this image I decided to look at his website. His images are high fashion, but what mainly drew me to the images are the colours and the lighting he used. Her pale skin against the dark background becomes really striking with the key light on the hair also.

After visiting the Portrait Gallery I also went to the National Gallery to see if I could gain some inprisation from there also. I found that I was drawn to images much like the one above with bright subject against darker backgrounds. Going to the National Gallery I was more intertested in the pictorialist movement and the way they created scenes from literture and music and took from classical inspiration.

In this way I thought of creating a modern day Ophelia but feel that it is a little overdone by not just photographers but all types of artists.

This led to the idea of the madness created by the idea of perfection. Think of the 1950’s housewife who had to ‘keep up with the Jones’s’, and being at home everyday cleaning and looking after your husband would try me to madness. So in this way I came up with the idea to create a ‘cross section’ of a house with a women doing a task in each room (making the bed in the bedroom, doing dishes in the kitchen, etc) and in the bathroom instead of cleaning the bath the women will be laying in the bath. It will be like a modern day Ophelia whose madness was cause by the ridiculous demends of society upon to be ‘perfect’ instead of an insane lover.