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The lighting is bad as it was dark when I took the photo's in my room but to conclude, these are the result of my research of studying the National Geographic Statistic that human beings only have one fifth of their lives to enjoy. I wanted to summaries a life in three prints. You're born. You grow. You die. The circle of life. Therefore, why not live every "free" second to the fullest? If there is nothing a person can do about only having one fifth of their life to live, then that person should take advantage of that and make the memories that I purposely left out in my pieces. I only printed the three important milestones to a humans life, I've left it to the individual, the viewer to fill in the gaps. 

"What are you waiting for?"

Here I'm working on my final piece, "Asleep." Like all the other pieces, I went through the making process similar to the last, only this time i decided to break up a mirror and add it to the print. The mirror symbolizes reflection.

First piece: "Repair"

I first cut out my print that I had decided to give a wash of red water colour.

I then sized it up to some layers of paper so that I could cut out the desired "window."

After cutting out the "window" I proceeded to draw out and cut the outer border to create my frame.

I glued all the pages, with PVA glue, together and pushed them to an angle to create my desired effect, then used a hot glue gun to quickly fix all the pages into place.

After adding the print into the frame, i glued this light transparent craft paper onto the outer layer. I wanted all my prints to be simple, but to have an impact and try to get the viewer to engage with the work. Which is why I did this, I wanted the viewer to really look hard into the frames and windows I've made.

Next i started on the other frame "Grow." Smaller then the last as this frame will hold the baby's pacifier print. 

Like my last print "Repair" I placed the light paper over it. This time in gold.

I still have other pieces to upload. Which will be uploaded shortly!

Here I'm working on my prints. I purposely allowed ink to remain around the borders of the slides because, although some people may find it unattractive and "messy" I quite like the effect it will give to my finished piece. At first I had started to attempt to carve a human face into a thick book. But, after numerous attempts and destroyed books, I became bored and uninterested with what I was trying to achieve. So I have decided to take a different approach to the way I will present my prints, and create a picture frame from a book, a broken mirror effect and a small hand bound book. I will upload my progress shortly.

As i was researching ideas that I could print and use, I decided that I wanted give a personal touch to my project. I wanted to ask my grandfather what was the happiest time of his life, but unfortunately he is too unwell to answer my question. So, to still include him in my project i decided to take the two most important times of his life by drawing and including these images into my piece. The photo with his wife, my grandmother, Ena, who has been married to for the past sixty years, and a photo taken in his youth as a boxer. This photograph was taken a couple of years before he won his title for the Munster Boxing Champion and later the winning an all Ireland. He also held a record for knocking his opponent out of the ring in the first ten seconds of a match.