Belle Vue

The last lecture of our research week was what I was lead to believe to be a very important one, one with a lot of meaning behind it. Two lectures based entirely on the very well known attraction Belle Vue. Claire Turner from the Manchester History festival and Michael Power from the cheltham library came in to our university to help our knowledge on the popular Belle View, two very different opinions on the park came across as very inspirational to me.

Claire painted a picture of a beautiful pleasure garden that was full of happy people that were well looked after, described as an amazing amusement park that was visited all year around. Where as Michael gave a much more gloomy opinion of animal cruelty, horrendous displays and nothing but an unhappy and safety worrying atmosphere. Both opinions were a brilliant opportunity for me to think lots more about what my thoughts might be on the park.

From this I decided to gather up more ideas and see how exactly I could link all the archives and lectures I had been inspired by to start to create a good idea of what outcome I want for my final project.

Both Mosi and behind the scenes in Blackpool’s costume designs gave me my perfect idea for a colour pallet, where as Belle Vue and Blackpool pleasure beach its self gave me much more of an idea about the different kind of theme and amusement parks, this branched on to me thinking of what I could make for a final piece but most importantly how I was going to get there. 
Was it going to be something that was flat and 2D or something much more extravagant and 3D, still unsure at this point, I decided I would focus my drawing work on mark making, combining both swirly lines and pin straight structures would be the perfect way to link together all the archive ideas that i had, to make it one big starting point before I got stuck into all my sampling work in both embroidery and weave.