Trying to do this blog is proving difficult. Firstly I couldn't access this bloge so I set up another one for my journal and now I can get into this one but not the other. Anway I've just spent last week creating a design of an idea for heaven and hell. I guess these are pretty personal subjects to people but I think thats good cos it means you get really involved in the design. I think the main thing that fuelled my design was anger. At first I was going for a comedic approach to the task but the more I thought about the idea of heaven and hell the more annoyed I got. I just found it so wrong the way the Church had used peoples hopes and fears to manipulate them. To me I came to think of the idea of heaven and hell being a creation that was used for control. It was all about hierarchy and elites. Going by the teachings of the church there are so many things that stop you from getting into heaven, so many supposed sins. These sins are usually human weaknesses. Getting into heaven seems like an inhuman task. I thought this was quite cruel and I wanted to show that in my design. I found desinging this quite interesting. At first I had so many different ideas floating about my head but once I had found the route i wanted to go down I felt I was able to foucs and get into the task. At the end of the week everyone had to present their finished work and it was all really good. It was interesting the different approaches and outlooks others in the group had. This week we have to design costumes for our good and bad self. I think I'm going to find this more challenging to get into but hopefully I'll get on ok.