After Gillian Wearing.

In our lesson we decided to go down the road to a big road junction and do some art research in a similar style as a survey. We copied the style of Gillian Wearing's art by walking around (in and out of shops) asking people what was on their mind/what they were just thinking of and then getting them to write it down so we could take a picture of them with it.

First of all we decided how we could go round asking these questions without having people run away from us or just walk straight past. We thought the better way of getting peoples attention was to ask them if they could quickly write down what they were thinking on a white piece of paper for our art project. This got most people interested then after this we asked if we could take a picture of them holing up what they had written.

After this we set off down the road to see what was on peoples minds. Most people seemed open to having a go but didn't necessarily get the whole point and most just wrote down that they were cold or that they were thinking about getting home or would do something completely different like draw a little picture.

We found that men and people in shops were more open to doing this. I'm not too sure why this was, maybe women are more busy and have places to be on a Thursday around 4 o'clock or maybe men are just less scared of a group of teenagers.

Overall I thought it was a good exercise and we got some very interesting answers, I'm now thinking of ways I can incorporate this with my work.