Brief

Who am I?

I'm hoping to create a visual communication response in regards to the cause and effect war has on a soldier. I chose this project due the recent events, with the bombing in France it caused a stir on the subject of terrorism and war. I thought it to be a very relevant piece to do and something that I think more people should be aware of. Art teaches and challenges our beliefs and encourages open ended thinking, I think by choosing such a hard spoken topic it can really ease the response and thought process.
I've always found subjects that are hard to talk about interesting, I think with being an artist that sometimes a challenging subject like war is just what you need. Now, with my project I'm not thinking I'll end all war but I'm hoping that it will spark a bit of thought on how it effects our soldiers. For example did you know that the suicide rate among veterans is 50% higher than for any nonmilitary civilians.

For the development of the project I want to develop a solid knowledge of ward, now I could either choose one war to fully go in depth into or I could look into a variety of different wars to look at similarities. With my subject being towards visual communication I'm wanting to experiment and produce a final piece of work with different mediums. Ill be looking to work with anything from painting and drawing to photography to typography and more. I will create a solid volume of work in my sketchbook leading up to my final piece developing and working my way through different materials to see what works best together. As well as looking at other wars I want to gather a collection of facts to do with soldiers during war as although my topic is war it's more precisely aimed at the soldiers themselves. 

For some resources what would be amazing would be to come across some veterans and ask them for there opinion but since that's hard to come by I'm hoping to rely heavily on the Internet and books. I did find a local (ish) war veteran turned artist and tried to contact him unsuccessfully. There's plenty of artists out there who tackle war as a subject and I'm hoping to look into there work for some information.