Peacocks....

Picture from visit to bird world.. lets just say wouldn't go back!

In need of inspiration- went into the environment looking at form that reminded me of peacocks!

I decided to make a potatoe stamp, turned out to be harder to do than expected! Never the less the concept was Mr. P. Cock- who is he, I also thought having done this I could use the idea, going around to billboards and stamping advertisements which are about showy, unecessary things etc. Another thought I had was using Mr P. Cock and doing an invitation for his party, a group of peacocks is called a party and a family called a bevvy. I thought of doing an invitation: Come to my party and bring your bevvy's. Yet thinking about this idea I did not feel the end product would display the fact clearly enough, and having experimented abit I also found it hard to make it obvious linking the fact to the bird.

Having done my research I was of the opinion that peacocks are all show, when your sitting at a zoo eating your lunch watching pretty peacocks walk around sure that is nice in context they look amazing what interesting creatures. But in fact when you look into them there really is not alot that is special about them, they are all show. So I decided to do the piece above looking at people that are perhaps just all show and then I thought why do they  give off this vibe. I decided it was to do with brands and so having likes the idea of a stamp above I did this Louis Vuitton (stamp??) thinking about how brands damage these people, how they can be negative and how they are all just show.

Having spoken to tutors and peers this then lead to the idea of veins. Peacocks according to the dictionary are 'vein strutting people' and I thought this would create good unobvious imagery and would also steer me away from the cliché images associated with the peacocks looks! Above is a start in my research into this idea!