Along the way I tried to explore line quality through listening to his songs and letting the sound influence my mark making. Through discussion at a group crit I decided not to continue with this process as it didn't accurately portray Gil as a person. What is it that distinguishes the squiggly lines that are supposedly from his songs from anyone else's? Dead end... but positively, as enabled me to explore more intimate ideas.
The most useful way through which I found myself at a final outcome was the help of feedback during our final group crit. The blind feedback I received allowed me to make the final refinements to my work. It gave me an outsiders perspective on how the work was interpreted and how it could be improved. In my final pieces I used images of 1960s/70s Harlem, New York. Using collage I used brushed ink to play with the situation of the characters in the images to represent the neglect the US government had toward Americans of colour. As well as the chaos of the time.
The final outcomes could potentially have been improved if I where to listen to some of the advise I'd received during a crit and experimented with how placing lyrics or spoken words of Gil Scott's on the images. In future try to pay more attention to feedback and how it could help progress work further!
