Following the ideas of restriction, I felt that it would be good research to look into ideas around the topic just to broaden my ideas for our next meeting, when we start to decide the look of our final outcome. I began looking through pinterest at the different examples that I could find around the subject, such as restrictive clothing. Straight jackets seemed to occur quite frequently in my searches; an item, alike to corsets that is able to distort the body through movement. It is also something that is used inside Strangeways prison for some of the refugees, bringing back the link to the city. I then came across a photograph taken in replication of madness through power. It seems to be the perfect piece of inspiration that I have been looking for- managing to combine the ideas of restriction, madness, isolation and a powerful figure in history together, as well as using the types of materials that we had been discussing in our group tutorial.
My other interpretation of 'restriction', was the feeling of isolation, so I began to look at both settings and materials that could portray this idea- mostly harsh materials such as barbed wire. The spaces that I have both found, and photographed are linked to the idea of abandonment, and isolated places- easy to find around Manchester.
As mentioned in my previous blog post, as a group we have decided that the aim our the final output will be to achieve a set of photographs that are able to portray the ideas of restriction and isolation, as well as linking the old city to our contemporary take on the Victorian era. Next week we are going to be looking around the city for places that appeal to this specification, and places that will give our final output chance to blossom.