In my primary research I had included 'Comfort Food' as an aspect of our relationship with food. I noticed that while every culture had a slightly different idea of what comfort food was, the main idea remained that after a stressful or bad day, a good hearty meal or some indulgent snacks would still have the ability to change one's mood.

From our class project outcome, I explored the idea of inverted treehouses

I chose these images because the pieces especially intrigued me. Product design using interesting materials and processes.

the pieces of Naomi Filmer and Burku Buyukunal are interesting to me because of the way they force the body into a different position or shape than what it takes naturally. Inversely, the pieces by Kate Langrish Smith and Atelier XJC require the body to position itself in a certain way in order to present the object most effectively.

Since the main brief of the project revolved around objects in relation to the body, I focused most on how jewellery pieces could influence the body and vice versa. I also find it interesting how the presentation and photography plays such an important role in ascribing meaning to a piece.

The artist after whom I named my typeface for my project in GCD rotation week, features some beautifully minimalistic architecture which is structurally similar to my font. I like how he uses 3D objects in such clean imagery, combining natural form with man-made structure to produce a very surrealistic scape.

I find Knight's manipulation of light on the body interesting- he brings a quality to the image that was previously impalpable. In the picture below, the light on the woman's face creates haunting patterns similar to bruises and gives a hallucinatory effect.

The geometry behind the decoration of 15th to 19th century mosques and palaces in India and the middle east interested me, which made me want to incorporate tiles or mosaic in my piece

I intend to have decorated tiles be able to fit together, utilising the stone plugs from my earlier research, and be able to create a dynamic piece of furniture or item whose form could be easily changed around and modified. (I Want my piece to have this function because during my research about acceleration, i found that acceleration does not necessarily have to involve speed- the basis of it's definition is change.

The image of the lego blocks made out of concrete interested me because of it's contrast with the basic nature of concrete- That dry concrete seems to be unmovable and unshapable, yet the lego blocks can be broken apart and reformed.

Theo van doesburg is an artist who was a part of the 'concrete art' movement, art which focused entirely on the abstract. While some abstract art forms take form and imagery from their surroundings, concrete art was intended to have no sentimentality nor contain any of 'nature's formal properties'.

The image of Van Doesburg's painting seemed interesting to add in my research because not only does it resemble slabs of concrete (though that was not the artist's intention), but the movement of which it was a part so reflects what i find to be the intrinsic qualities of the material concrete itself.

Shonibare's work explores issues of race and class alongside colonialism and identity.

A significant and recurring theme in his work is the reinvesting of traditional African fashion/ fabrics/ patterns with new meaning. By recasting popular Western items in African fabric or patterns, the work draws attention to the complicated relationship between the west and Africa, as well as their economic and political situations.

Cha Cha Cha', a pair of women's shoes from 1950, covered in fabric, is one such example.

Many of the pieces have a humorous element to them. Headless dummies in various sexual positions, make direct reference to the guillotine and sexual repression of that period (the French Revolution). While playful, the work also signifies Shonibare's simultanious celebration and condemnation of the past and of the current social systems present in today's society.