For my 5th swatch i decided to work with lines and dots I took the inspiration for my 5th swatch from a parasitic plant that take all the necessary elements from the subject plant. I have used the thermacoal to depict the extracted essential material and dark green circles that depicts the jealous and greedy parasites that are extracting the important materials from the big circular subject. The lines present the movement of extraction.
This time i wanted to use geometric shapes and for that i used circle,rectangle and triangle.
The pointed triangle depicted the harm they are causing to each other. The blue color rectangle show pandavas which depicts justice. The green color rectangle on the other hand is kaurvas colored by green to show injustice and jealousy. The red ball signifies how 'throne' is dominating their minds.
In this structure, I have tried to show greed, another side of thirst for money. I have shown a situation where people are killing each other to earn throne.
For the third swatch i decided to take the inspiration from my theme the fight for throne between the pandvas and the kaurvas. I made a throne to represent my concept and to show the fight i just used forks on the either sides of it.
The research further took me to depict my idea using the tug of war game. The game is all about pulling each other towards them by applying their power to the fullest and I decided to add my concept to it. I attached a currency to the rope that would clearly show my concept of greed by power. By using the torn currency i wanted to show the aggressiveness of people to get the currency which has occurred cause of the greed. This is the reason behind the torn currency. Instead of using anything figurative i have used forks to show the reflection of hand.
As I was jotting down the things that depicted greed as per me, the one that struck my mind first was a game of greed. I got my inspiration from the game of snakes and ladders and simplified one of the base of a game and created a base of my own using coins clearly depicting my concept as coins are one of the thing that symbolizes greed. I piled up coins that would work as a winning reward for the players and i have used door magnet as it has a property to attract things that would depict the idea of greed by attracting the metal coins.
Now that the boards were over the next thing we have to do was to make swatches i.e samples, for that we were asked to scribble down the designs from our theme that depicted our essence and try to make them using various materials that conveyed our concept in a clear and harmony manner. I started to explore with colors and various materials, I started to paint and scribble down taking the charaview as my inspiration. For me anything that was scrap for others it was my next material to be explored. I enjoyed this part of work a lot as I got to come across many materials which I havent used before.
A mood board contains the key things related to a topic. It was a hard thing to decide which aspect to be added and which must not. After deciding I added the pictures of Draupadi cheerharan, birth of draupadi, the fight between the kaurvas and the pandavas and many more.
