Visual Representation - Part 7

Progress Challenge 7: Polish the Turd

You are a day from a big job interview when your home office explodes, taking all of your recent work with it. Five (5) pieces of your oldest work survive. You must re-furbish these and present them as your folio for the interview.

Brief:

For the purposes of this exercise these should be artworks that have never seen presentation format,
like:
• sketches on cartridge torn from a ringback sketchbook
• water-based acrylic paintings on wobbly art paper
• collages that have been pinned to your wall since high school
• a bunch of old photos.
It doesn’t matter how awful they are, the point is to present them like they’re high-concept artworks created by a flourishing prodigy. Make your audience believe.
You may present your work in any way you see fit. Examples of a presentation format include:
• a single presentation flip-file with your artwork in separate plastic presentation sheaths
• individually framed and covered presentation boards
• a moodboard
• a blog item
• an online gallery.
These options are all fairly standard – how you’ll make your works look good is entirely up to you.
How good, and different, it ends up looking depends on how far outside of the box you can think. Also, try to have fun with it. Your assessment will not live or die on how you tackle this problem. If you don’t have any artwork you can use (and how is that possible?) then you’ll have to pick five (5) pieces from LINK 33.
Complete the above challenge and then click LINK 34 to upload. Click LINK 35 to discuss your work with other students on the forum.

Answer

I chose my old drawings that I did when I was little because they were the oldest stuff I have and I thought they needed to be 'jazzed up' a bit.  Some of them were so old they were almost falling apart - so here are the 'before' and 'after' versions of these drawings.