During my project I explored nostalgia, memory, and simply British averageness. I intended my final outcome to have a level of relatability in at least one part of the piece for someone as it’s an amalgamation of somewhat iconic and hopefully recognisable British objects. Previously I have explored replication, testing how detailed recreations of objects can evoke memory. I found it interesting to spend a long amount of time recreating something as it really makes you rethink the materiality of the object. For example, my recreation of a sports direct mug, whose design I hadn’t thought much of before. Yet I now realise it’s obvious nationalistic design of the white, red and blue, the same colours as the British flag. But since I have a continuous theme of satire throughout my work, I wanted this piece to be more than just recreations of objects, so I began to play with scale for comic effect. Because an absurdly large fish finger and tiny sweet little Colin the caterpillar cakes are far more interesting than when they’re at their real size. I wanted all the separate pieces to live in one space to make them cohesive and I felt a kebab van was perfect for this. It is based off Bourton Kebab Van from home, and is a slightly distorted version, yet still has its essence. Its particularly iconic at home, and so are kebab shops throughout Britain in general. Lastly, I explored the power of scent in evoking nostalgia, so I decided to cover the van in Bacon smelling spray as a reminder of British BBQs and in impulse body spray as a throwback to year 8 changing rooms which stank of this.
