Ideas for assignment...

I want to explore my own personal traces, and where better to explore that than my flat! I spend a lot of time at my flat I eat and sleep there among other things. 

I am wanting to document my own traces around my flat because I feel that it is interesting working on something that is personal and is interesting for the viewer. I always find it interesting going to open homes where people allow you into their personal place where they have lived, slept and ate in it has a strange but exciting feeling like looking at photographs of history (maybe its because I am a curious person). 

I was thinking initially starting to look at ways of showing my traces such as dishes and a messy bed, however my traces aren't that obvious because I am a tidy person. I make my bed, have my room orderly and never leave dishes out.. so getting the feel of my traces would seem fake to me as the artist if I were to take pictures of stacked dishes etc. However what is so bad about creating scenes such as Jeff Walls destroyed room...

I could create my own scenes to seem like someone had been there.. I can picture scrunched sheets and pilled dishes, which are all white in my house; it could have a cool pattern feel to it and an organised mess... I could have zoomed tight framed images. 

I am also interested in Schneemann’s performance art and I feel like that way of working and making art is familiar to me and I have done similar things before and found it fascinating, it is like letting go and releasing your subconscious to be free.. 

I had an idea of turning my room into a performance piece and making my room a mess just re arranging things, piling things on top of each other creating a mess, which is sort of like Jeff Wall did in ‘The Destroyed Room’ where it was actually carefully constructed to reference Eugène Delacroix’s 1827 painting, Death of Sardanapalus. Maybe if I had something to reference like that it might give me some clarity?

The end could be a series of different ways I have organised mess.. To make it more cohesive I could use a tripod and have in the same position each time. Also I could attempt to use studio lights for a similar feel in each picture if I wanted the series to have a studio and organised feel? Could be a nice juxtaposition with the mess to formally, cohesive formatted pictures.

I chose the following images from the book 'Art and Photography'

I feel like this series shows how I could do a series of something being altered and documenting it, without having to have the same position of each picture to be interesting.. its actually more interesting having different angles.
It gives another take on traces, more of a literal take..

I chose this image because i thought it could be inspiration for chaotic mess and shows another way of taking images.. such as it has been taken up close and has a tight frame, which sort of make the mess of the food feel overwhelming... even more close up could turn into something completely different and abstract.