Therefore as part if my research I have decided to look at various techniques and procedures that allows a person to transform their appearance, this includes wearing masks, plastic surgery, make up, aging etc.

As part of my initial research I looked at artists and designers such as the American photographer Ralph Meatyard, the American illustrator Erik Jones, and designers Joachim Sperl and Raoul Hausmann.

Meatyards photographs of people wearing masks intrigued me not only because it obviously went along with my project nicely, but it was rather the fact that he uses the idea of depersonalising someone by taking their identity and little difference that people had away through the use of masks and so erasing all sense of personhood. Erik Jones on the other hand appealed to me because of how well he changed a simple painting by using intricate repeated shapes as well as bright and eye catching colours.

Taking these designers as inspiration I tried to then imitate some of their works. For Meatyard I used my own photographs that I created in his style by asking people that I know to pose absentmindedly for the pictures wearing masks.

While for Jones I simply drew over photographs that I took in the style of Meatyard but drew them in the style of Jones as well as made collages and painted over them using different shapes imitating that of Jones' illustrations. While experimenting with Jones' illustration styles, I also tried different ways of illustrating pictures such as drip water colours, which I became very fond of, although it was my first time illustrating in such a way, because of it's uniqueness.

As part of my research I believe that my trip last year to Venice was very fitting as Venice is known for it's beautiful Venetian masks, which sparked my research into mask's history and uses, but I also thought that my trip to the Punta Della Dogana museum was useful as I got to see artists there that transformed ordinary pieces into extra ordinary pieces such as David Hammons' "Untitled", 2000 (which is a glass basketball hoop which was transformed into a luxurious looking, crystal covered candle holder).



During this week I was also able to visit the Martin Creed exhibition at the Hayward gallery, which was definitely not a disappointment. Although it was quite an unusual exhibition that didn't strongly have anything to do with my project, it did focus a little on transforming spaces and how we, as the audience, perceive a space.