Ben Heine

 Whilst investigating the space I have become most interested in the absence of movement and life in the dance studios. I have been honing in on evidence of previous movement in the space and photographing drag marks and scratches in the what first appears to be shiny clean floors. Although the images are showing something that was in the space but is there no longer I still don't feel like I am portraying how much the lack of movement "bothers" me when I enter the dance studios. After some research I found the work of Ben Heine, who incorporates drawings and photography to create fantasy worlds, and portray things in situations that aren't really there.

I would like to experiment with this myself within one of the dance studios. Perhaps instead of incorporating fantasy things into the space as Heine does, incorporating something that should be there but isn't. At the moment I am thinking of returning to the space and photographing in point blank, just as it is, which is something I am yet to do. I can then look into stock images of dancers (as I am not able to obtain them through my own imagery) and somehow incorporate them into the images of the space. My drawing ability is no where near up to scratch enough to draw these things myself, so I will

probably require the aid of Photoshop to change my images from photographs to drawings or paintings. I will then re-enter these images into the space, aligning them precisely as Heine does. At the moment I do not know what scale these images will result in being, or even if I am going to proceed with this idea until the end. I do intend on experimenting thoroughly with this idea and executing it to the best of my ability.