Tonight Matthew..

So completely ignore my previous post on my ideas for my olympian sandal and where I was taking inspiration from ! I have been putting this project off for a long time and I took a few days away midweek to go to Leicester to see a bit of sunshine and get my head together to 'tackle' these next few weeks ! So upon returning i have spent the past 2 days working solidly in the library, unfortunately today is Saturday and St Patricks day and as I write this as a good student and persevere with work I can here all my flat drinking in the kitchen.. but seem as deadlines are calling and i have £42 in my bank account until I go beg natwest to extend my overdraft this is a perfect night in..
So I went back into my research stage of the project (fully knowing that i should now be designing the shoe) and looked again into the Olympics. I liked my idea of looking to the 1948 Olympics and recording it in the presence in a print, almost like 'story of now' WGSN/'George Shaw' paintings. Also this ties in nicely with the idea of looking to the past and how liberty embraces heritage.
I looked into the opening ceremony of 1948 London Olympics and read that 7000 pigeons were released from 350 wicker baskets at the sides of wembley arena to mark the beginning of the Olympics and i like the idea of this imagery of a flying pigeon to begin to make a pattern out of so i have started this process of making this into a print by drawing a singular flying pigeon and starting to put a print within the wings. I looked at the official posters for the 1948 Olympics and saw that Big Ben was one of the main images and liked the idea of drawing Big Bens clock dial into the official Olympic rings and this is the pattern that i have started to draw within the bird. Photos to follow soon!