For my presentation/mount up, I wanted to ensure that my framing would enhance the images by being personalised to the images. Due to this, I created some sketches of my ideas and labelled some key elements within each idea.

At first, I wanted to mount the photos so that they would be able to spin – planning to reuse old mirrors and decorate them according to match each image. However, I felt as though the images would look disconnected from one another rather than be viewed as a set due to the differences in decorations which led me to create some more sketches to work around this issue.

Next, I began to experiment with my ideas, creating 4 new sketches that I began to explore. I was leaning into the idea of creating a small tv [sketch 3] and trying to make my images spin by using the notches to make my final project more interactive. Alongside that, I felt the tv would help to portray the performativity of gender/gender roles as it’d be showing my images on the topic as a fabrication whilst mocking the idea of people imitating what they see on tv. However, I knew that it would take a lot of time to create so I decided on using sketch 2 as a back up plan in case I wouldn’t be able to create sketch 1 as I the eyes around the frames would symbolise how society is constantly watching and judging the actions of those around them and criticising those who stand out/reject conformity.

I decided against using sketches 1 & 4 as they felt too plain for my liking and felt as though they wouldn’t use help elevate my images like sketches 3 & 4 would.