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These images,are the final pieces for my work,How I presented ,would be in the book layout,each little book,shows how we keep in contact before having the social network sites,of letter writing from different eras, as letter writing has taken the majority of keeping in contact thought out history ,therefore of making these little books ,and making them from letters and stamps to keep it connected with my idea

In this project, of “Post what”, I mainly concentrated on how we kept in contact before we hand social networking sites. I started off by researching into different forms of hand writing, as it shows personality of the author, as on any of the social networking sites, there really one form of font to use, but also writing to some, it shows that they had given thought to write to the sender. I started to experiments with drawings of a timeline, documenting the different forms of keeping in contact. I painted these in watercolour, but I thought that it doesn’t keep in touch of what I had in mind, as I want to make my work seem more personal of using photographs and different examples of handwriting .I started off, with looking at Facebook because it’s one of the main ways of keeping in contact today, I started off by making a facebook dairy but felt it had no relevance to do with my main idea, also I on the facebook idea, I made a felt like badge so we could like things in real life instead of only on facebook. What started my main idea off, was one of my quick sketches was the facebook post-box and stamp, it started to make me think how we keep more in contact on line than handwriting, so I wanted concentrate on this. I started to experiment making a books, as of taking inspiration from the st.Brides book fair and from the research of other artists such as “Ray Johnson” with his mail art. For my final pieces made three little book of how we kept in contact, each is to do with different scenarios of letter writers; I’ve tried to make them seem more personal as using collage media of letters I came across, but also I made them small, so it can be easily hand held but also I wanted to get the audience involved to look through, my idea for the books was to still have the timeline idea of setting out the different things that makes up the letter as well. I also feel that I could of worked more on my sketchbook to develop my ideas further.