I wasn’t quite sure where to start when given the task to create three appropriation images.  Coming up with ideas for projects has never been my strong point, so I found myself focussing on the techniques of the photographers that we’d been shown – such as Richard Prince – instead of trying to come up with my own style.

I started thinking about the concept of originality, and how our work is never really unique – we naturally take inspiration from a collection of different work that we’ve seen, piecing it together to form our own.  I then told myself that this was the whole point of the appropriation task, the point was that we looked at someone else’s work and gave it another meaning.  The exact title of the assignment was: ‘how do your images allow the viewer to renegotiate the meaning of the originals?’  I therefore tried to focus more on the message I was trying to convey than what I was planning to do with the images (in terms of editing).  From here, the real brainstorming could begin.