Mood Board: Unit X

 

Due to illness, I was slightly late when producing my Moodboard and felt considerably undeveloped with my ideas. These images are mainly taken from the 'Fairground Project' I’d previously made on my Pinterest account. Here, I have primarily focused upon bright colourations and shapes within the fairground features, giving me more of a graphical based starting point, but also honed in on the embellishment and finishing within the more fashion based photographs. My Moodboard has also enabled me to start envisaging my colour palette (shown within the experimental wrapping- colours taken from my own Blackpool image below) which is a very essential part of the process.

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My personal Pinterest board gives a full indication in the direction I would like to go with my embroidery and weave; concentrating on the shape within the fairground rides, and then looking at embellishment as a finish for on top of this.

 

Belle Vue: Unit X

 

(images sourced from the Internet)

With living not far from Manchester all my life, I was really surprised that I’d never actually heard about this vast, exciting and eccentric place. Belle Vue opened in 1836 and within its heyday, was one of the North’s most popular entertainment centres. Millions of people would travel from all every year over just to visit this gigantic venue.

I didn’t manage to visit the Chetham's Library collection on Belle Vue due to illness, however I did attend the lecture and found it very captivating. The sheer magnitude of the place was something that interested me most, containing a full size zoo, rollercoasters and rides for all ages and the annual circus to name a few.

 

A story that I found particularly enchanting was the first elephant ever acquired at the zoo, Maharajah. The anecdote goes that Maharajah was to travel by train, however (in myth- potentially accidently on purpose) he destroyed the train compartment he was due to travel in and consequently had to travel on foot with his trainer from Edinburgh to Manchester. This was largely seen as a publicity stunt to gain promotion for Belle Vue. Unfortunately, the 70s saw the decline of Belle Vue and then the closure within 1982.

I don’t believe that Belle Vue will influence my fairground project by much capacity, however I really enjoyed listening about this cosmic, exhilarating place.