Creating paintings and creating photographs are two different processes. Often a painting presents what was truly seen at that moment in time but a photograph can be manipulated to show people what they want to see. My decision to appropriate old paintings of different meanings into current photographic pieces made it difficult as I would not have all the features of the artwork, such as the location, or the items of clothing. My ability to use the things that I have would be my advantage to creating identical pieces to the artists but I learnt that I did not need to ‘copy’ their work. Resembling the important meanings that these artists used like the photographers who appropriated them allowed me insight into using the same meanings but with current conventions.