After my one to one i was advised to prehaps veer away from the use of orange peel as a media and focus on using more varying media so that i have more that i can develop from.She mentioned that my research didn’t link very well with the work i had done either so i started to look at vintage adverts from the 1950’s promoting skincare and modern day adverts and what the slogans are/were was there many differences?

I also remembered my mum saying that once you got to 50 people don’t see you anymore and you just become ‘invisable’ i spoke to different people int he class for their opinion and to other older women that i knew and that point of viewed differed depending on that women’s confidence and attitude towards life one woman saying that ‘life was too short to care of what people thought’ and another woman saying that she felt it was a cultural thing because the brittish and americans don’t respect there elderly which is shown by putting them into care homes.I also watched a bbc interview with some online ‘influencers’ over the age of 70.One comment that stood out for me was one of the women saying ‘if you don’t live your life and try to stand out then you become ‘invisable’.

The word invisable started to stand out for me so I started to look at way’s i could make elderly women look invisable and realised when using collage as a medium that elderly women were invisable in the press!I found a totaly of 4 pictures of women i would think to be over the age of 50 in comparison to the overwhelming amount of women age 40 and under.If the media act like this age range doesn’t exsist then that has a huge effect on the viewer.

I didn’t really mind using the orange peel as much in these pieces as i feel that it has transended away from it’s original form using the photocopier and in the first couple of images it frames the image but also gives a feeling of stitches/surgery.