Memory

Another theme which as a lot of visual potential is that of memory and how Ned looses touch with reality and the events that have happened.

The drawing above by Evie Cahir is a very interesting way of showing how something has been forgotten, with a lot of detail put into something that most people wouldn't pay attention to with the main focus left blank.

I would like to try replicating this effect to an extent, having some of the image clear and the rest either blank or just vague and out of focus. Printing techniques would be a good way of doing this, either badly printing a section of a lino cut, or monoprinting but not pressing very hard for the section I want to be hazy. I would also like to try a technique of transferring a laser print onto another sheet of paper using cellulose thinners to create a distressed and hopefully imperfect and unclear image.

I could also experiment with covering certain areas of an image or photograph with paint like the image above. This could either be done by putting paint directly onto the image, or by using layers of acetate or tracing paper, building layers of memories that can then be uncovered to see the complete image behind it. This also ties in with the vivid descriptions of water colours that are repeated in the story.