Pandora`s box

The main idea of my project was to portray the history of London alongside what we see of London now.  I wanted to show how much the city has changed through the years and how ignorant most of the modern  generation is towards the history of the city without realising that we have an impact on the future of the city and one day, for the future generations, we would be part of history. After researching and experimenting with different techniques, I decided to use monoprints and image transfers to make up my final design.

 The basic idea for my piece was to create a book in the shape of a box (exploding box) containing different monoprints and image transfers. The walls of the box will not be sealed together so that when the lid is taken of the box, the walls fall with the layers inside. Inside the box there are layers of sheets of different sizes and with different designs. To make the box, I firstly made the outer cardboard layer. I then cut out the layers for inside the box (largest to smallest).  Next I designed both sides of all the layers except the outside layer. As the outside layer was made of cardboard I decided to do image transfers on all the flaps. Once I had designed the layers I stuck the base of the layers together, starting with the smallest so that I could place them in the correct area. To create the exploding effect, I created the lid to the box. I used ribbon to hold the lid. There were 11 layers in total making up the box. Each layer had a monoprint on both sides of it. One side has historical artefacts of London and the other has prints of London now.  The colours I chose to use were inspired by the medieval London.