Concertina

The theme that I have decided to do, in relation to the main topic of journey, is to leave home and start afresh. My concertina features, as a whole, a car driving on a long road, which goes into a large sunset. It has smaller features such a birds in the sky, which I used to symbolise freedom to roam wherever you want, like the people featured driving.

The first side on my concertina shows a road stretching across the page, with completely empty surroundings apart from a few trees in the background, and leave-like plants in the foreground. There is nothing rememberable or significant about the area, which represents how the people have completely left behind anything that they were comfortable with and recognised, to move on to somewhere completely new and truly start afresh.

The next side shows a view of half of the back of a car with a person’s back, and a tree close by to the road, and absolutely nothing in the background besides a few clouds. This again supports the fact that the people have left behind everything they know to move of, and have turned there backs on there previous lives (hence why the picture depicts them from behind).

The next drawing focuses more on the sunset that the road leads into. The shade drawn that gradually gets lighter as it gets further away from the sun is supposed to be the change in colour of the sunset, but as it is in black and white, rather than the colours getting lighter, the shading of the pencil gets lighter. It also has more clouds, which fill the image a majority more than they have in previous sides of the concertina. I did this because for this image I wanted to focus more on the mood of the surroundings and the sky. I feel this would have been more affective if the image was in colour, so you could see the warmth of the sky and the changes in colour slowly develop lighter. This would create a positive mood to the piece, which could represent the people’s feelings about taking this journey.

The fourth drawing aims to show the persons perspective of the road through a reflection in the sunglasses. You can see better in this picture than the rest the road which stretches out into the distance, right to the centre of the sunset, and again features the use of shade to represent the changes in colour of the sunset.

The fifth drawing shows a woman stretching out her arm to catch the wind, much like a bird with its wings. This again has connotations of freedom to roam, and the enjoyment that it brings to the woman, otherwise she wouldn’t have her arm sticking out.

The next drawing shows the birds previously mentioned flying in front of the sunset, free. This is a metaphor for the feelings of the drivers, as they to can roam free to wherever they want, and start a new life for themselves.

The final drawing is of a car radio. Had I had time in the lesson to complete this drawing, I was going to draw some lyrics that I found, which are relevant to the topic, floating out of the speakers. The lyrics would represent the thoughts of the drivers about their journey.