FMP

 FMP plan  

For my Fmp I have decided to work with the idea of flowers. This is initially inspired by the relationship between flowers and apologies. Whenever my mother does something she knows is wrong, ill receive a bunch of flowers, no heads up or apology, just the flowers, the flowers are sign she feels guilt over something even if I don't know what that is yet. I didn't want to make the whole project about my mother but instead just used this as an initial start point where more ideas grow from. I have been playing with ideas around lies flowers and apologies. 

From this I have a video piece planned, I want to do a piece where I repeatedly get hit around the face with a bunch of flowers whilst reciting the care instructions from the flowers packaging. This idea came from the idea of these flowers being a bit of a slap in the face. To be able to film this I need to find a nice clean studio space that will be quite and visually pleasing. I think this will work well visually my only thought is if I would be able to keep up the talking whilst getting hit or if I will have to add the speech over after.  

I started noticing people carrying flowers on the road, I wondered why they had them, have they received them? is it someone birthday? or are they sad flowers? I want to investigate these questions more, I went and had a talk with a local flower seller, this lady has her own market stall on the side of the road. I am going to spend a day with her on Friday, ask questions, write down different interactions, photograph, video and just see what I can make out of it. 

I don't yet know what my final outcome will look like exactly, I think most likely it will be some kind of video, publication and large print.