There were so many things I hadn’t really thought of in the feedback from my tutor and once again I think much of this is down to the fact that I struggle to think about more than two or three aspects of the project at once. I think some of this is due to the timescales involved and that given more time I think I would be more successful at discovering them and therefore focusing on them.

He also suggested I think about offsetting the “inserted” character and was something I thought would be really interesting to look at and something I would be able to complete before assessment.

I decided to test this with one of the larger family group images

Original image.2

The hardest part of this seemed to be where to place the “inserted” character. Too far away and they seemed not to be part of that particular group, but had a bit of a strange feel to it. It seems to be that because you don’t see the child in the distance on the right straight away, but when you do its a bit if a surprise followed by feeling a bit worries as to why he is there on his own. (Offset 1). Placing them near enough to be part of the group but not actually in the group seemed to work well, although both these images made me feel quite uncomfortable. It would be an interesting experiment to show all three images to both adopted and non adopted people and ask them to rate their uncomfortableness on a scale! Offset 2 made me think that the child desperately wanted to be part of the group which made me feel quite uncomfortable and a bit sad.

Offset 1

Offset 2

When I initially read the feedback around offsetting one of the figures I thought it might look a bit obvious. It really doesn’t and although this doesn’t say everything that I was attempting to say, the fact that both images resonate with me means they are working at some level.