Category: Beckie Mitchell

This postcard was formed using data collected over two weeks tracking my daily emotions. 

To visually represent this, I groupes sets of similar emotions and used a colour to symbolise them. As for the layout I used a “follow the line” theme. Each person will run through a series of different emotions, I have only chosen the dominant emptiness of the day. I questioned the reliability of this as I was only logging at the end of the day. If an emotion was overwhelmingly strong in the last hour of the day this may jolt my judgement of the day. 

I experimented with a variety of ways in which I could layout my findings. The first idea was to have two “meeting” or “middle points”, this became to busy and blurred.

I then tried splitting the two weeks roughly into three, this again looked messy. I realised the issue came from the mixing of colours. This triggered using three meeting points the first being only yellow, the second green and blue, and the third red and purple.

I have been exploring fears and terrors through a Sketchbook this summer, particularly my own personal fears. This postcard has made me feel much more secure and pleased with myself. The majority of these two weeks were yellow which are all positive emotions. 

Dear Rachel ~ love Beckie

I had spent the day in mumbles and decided to pop into the Welsh tourist shop. After spending a while I decided that this was the doll post card looked the most cute and least scary. Unfortunately when I came to write the postcard, it had been completely crumpled within my bag. Instead of wasting a lovely card, I decided to follow the folds with rips and tairs. Disregarding some pieces, I stuck the remaining onto a card which was covered in brown tape which avoided the clean and harsh white against the original postcard.

I felt this now replicated a broken or smashed doll. This has made me intrigued by the concept of fear involving dolls, often they are portrayed as being supernatural within movies like chucky. 

As I have recently decided that my theme for my personal summer project will be terror and fears, this could be something interesting that I choose to explore. 

Dear Rachel ~ love Beckie

This postcard marks the beginning of my collaboration with Rachel. I wrote this the day after I worked as a poll clerk on the general elections in June. Throughout the day I continuously collected data involving three different elements that occurred.

The first piece of information was how often I was delayed whilst eating my meals and snacks. Due to the job, there is a continuous flow of voters which rarely stops for two minutes. Using coloured pencils I was able to visually represent this data as a cover to this postcard. I considered using a set of five flowers, each flower being the meal or snack and each petal being a disruption, however after a few attempts I decided against this. Instead I used a series of flowing lines and circles. 

Each colour is a meal or snack. They were chosen to match a dominant colour within that food. 

Brown = breakfast (5)

Red = dinner (16)

Green = Apple (8)

Yellow = tea (8)

Pink = crisps (9)

The second piece of data was how I marked each x number people entering the station. In keeping with the postcard theme, I folded a post card sized paper to represent each x amount of voters. 

For example the first x was a basic fold in half width ways. 

The final data collected was the number of dogs brought into the polling station. In total there were 32 dogs that entered. Each was a different breed bar two which were Labradors. 

Dear Rachel ~ love Beckie