I took inspiration from my photography of the architecture at the Tate Modern to create a watercolour image. Referencing my original photo, I created an abstract representation of the empty place I viewed as a non-place. The staircase serves little purpose; the photo shows people sitting or standing while waiting. It could be seen as “excessive space”.
I used straight brush strokes to create a jarring atmosphere in my painting. I then started experimenting with type, using letters from the title to form an image, cutting them out of paper and laying this over the painting.
EXPERIMENTING WITH LIGHT AND SHADOW: I found that the cut out I had made created an interesting effect when next to direct light.
Sophia Tate 