As part of my degree, I worked on a little brief I gave myself - I was really obsessing over the Greek myth - in particular the story of Daedalus and Icarus. 

These images were taken on my phone, some 2/3 years ago now. With some horrible windows phone (does anyone still actually use them?) filters.

This art work and process was rudimentary at best. I'd utilized and became enamored with using lines and an main source of expression and mark. So you can see: 

Image One was the finalized piece, on the Fall of Icarus.

Image Two is my use of random lines and meticulous filling in, on a black backdrop. 

Image Three shows me creating figuration and shape out of lines (instead of just letting the ink move and react with the paper and me, the artist following that. 

The Remaining Images show the process of coming to the finalized piece.

Creating figuration out of abstraction became a massive aspect of my art practice before and after this piece. I'd become a zombie to this process and in that midst of dealing with the stresses of this I had to set myself tasks and briefs such as this to help take away from the routine of just tracing lines over inkblots. I'ts mostly an endeavor of purpose as this routine I'd create left me on the edge of curiosity and not knowing where my art was potentially going, which inherently wasn't a bad thing as such - but as artists we all do get that block somewhere in the midst of a piece or an idea/concept.