Today’s article reflected the harsh atmosphere that evacuees faced in Britain 80 years ago due to a clash of classes and culture.Evaquee’s were seen as filthy and some houses weren’t allowing them to use the cooking or washing facilities.In a report from North Wales it was said ‘there is a nasty spirit among the mothers and some of the children.Some of the children were so filthy that the homeowners would wash them in carbolic baths.This made me think of the clash of classes and how they saw the evacuees as dirt invading there lives and a clash of cultures.This is why i decided to use oats which is a food associated with the lower class and to ‘dirty’ the middle class belongings with it.I used a white sheet to represent how the homeowners thought they were pure good people doing the ‘right thing’

Today i viewed a variety of different stories and decided to focus in on male ‘trophy hunters’who collect monkeys as trophys.I developed this idea and decided to research into the pshycology behind the male ego which apparently is an issue which stems from child development issues.I decided to create a final piece based on the fragility of the male ego,where pieces are burnt away and haphazardly s

titched back together again.I also wanted to use an abstract shape formed from the shape of the vagina as another name for it is ‘flower or fairy’ which makes you think of something fragile and weak when it is actually very robust and strong.I liked the irony of this being used to represent the frailness of the male ego.