mood and memory plants

Brief

You are to

apply the theme of 'Memory

' (the theme to the Times Cheltenham

Literature Festival 2013) to your response and avoid the obvious interpretations of

Roman Gods, astrology etc.

Instead, as this is a competition focusing on narrative

illustration, your entry may be drawn from your own memory, experience or your own

invented fictional response. November 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the

publication of the first volume of Marcel Proust's

Remembrance of Things Past, and as

we are also approaching the centenary of the start of the First World War in 2014, it is

an especially apt time to consider the fundamental role memory plays in underpinning

our lives, our wider culture, our

interpretation of the past and our shaping of the

future. Memory is to a very significant extent an active creative process of recreation

rather than simply information retrieval. With narrative and metaphor at its heart, it¹s

remarkably close to fiction

writing, and a theme which is fertile ground to explore, with wide

ranging implications for autobiography and memoir, poetry, history and of course

fiction.

My ideas!

My idea was too base the plants colours in the paintings but not add the plants in. I wanted to use the quotes of the plants as the themes, 'Jollity', 'The Bringer of Old Age', 'The Bringer of Messenger'. For 'Jollity' I created a 2D piece and added materials so that when I scan it in it will give a 3D effect. For 'Old Age' I love the poem 'Havisham' and I wanted to bring that to the project because its based on a old lady. 'Messenger' I wanted to use the old fashions way and have a bird bring the messeges and sit on his bird cage.