So... Much... Research...

So far I've been putting together research material and doing sketches to figure out how my pieces will go. Today, I'll be concentrating on the new information I've collected:

First, I started looking into what other people have done with receipts, and it's pretty obvious none of them have thought of burning them.

People have been pretty creative, and I'm glad I found out what other art has been done. Most just draw on them, but others concentrate on what the receipts say (Link). Another artist, Ceal Floyer, also concentrates on what the receipts. She actually tells the curators of the museum to buy certain things and hang the receipt on the wall. These can be worth £30,000 for a little piece of paper, especially since they must destroy the receipt when they take down the art. You can see this article here.

Other than looking at the medium, I focused on how I wanted to set up my composition. One artist who has inspired me is Juan Francisco Casas. He uses ball point pens to draw large realistic images. I like this idea of seeing something larger, but also how he uses a very simple medium.

More along the lines of composition, here are some images which will help me figure out how I wish to pose my sexy writers:

I want them to really reach out to the viewer, and I'm hoping to create a more intimate composition to help stress the idea of "sex sells." I've already talked to a few people about it, and not only do people seem to like the idea, but they're excited about literature... at least a little bit. My goal is for other people to see what I see when I read a piece of literature.