I've always thought the fig of a bunch of grapes had an interesting shape
and thought it would make for an interesting composition for this assignment.
I tried to give it a tranquil, pure look
and only added a pink dried flower to a white background.
But somehow it still looked dull.

I then tried to add some texture and warmth in the background.
I placed the grape fig and a ivory fish earring
on top of a yellow cellophane paper and a white textured paper.
And I still wasn't pleased with it.

Next, I tried putting different textured coloured paper together.
The colour contrast came out pretty well
but it felt a little too stiff for me.
And my friend even commented
that it resembled a United Colours of Benetton Ad.

I ransacked my bag to see what else I got
('cos I went to my friend's to borrow her scanner)
and decided to scatter whatever I could find to get the random feel I wanted.
It then turned out to look like an ad for ArtFriend or something.

After numerous frustrating attempts,
I was desperate and decided to try using my hand instead.
I first crumpled yellow cellophane paper and then put my hand on top of it.

The result came out pretty interesting.
I tried a few more times but the rest felt too deliberate and planted.
I liked this one as it had a very random feel to it.
The texture of the cellophane ppr also made it look
as though electric currents were flowing thru my hand
which i thought was pretty cool.
I was very fortunate to be wearing my gold watch as well.
It added some detail into an otherwise plan image.

In the end, I presented the hand and the UCB pieces during class.
Most seemed to like the hand better.
One suggested to have the hand closer to the right corner
but I felt that would appear too planted like my other subsequent attempts.
One also commented that it seemed like it was reaching out to nothing-ness
which exemplified how I felt at that point in time; desperate and helpless. Ha.

Compared to the rest of the works,
I'd give myself, say 70, with the best work at 90.
After reviewing the works of others,
I realised that there were quite a few techniques that I could play around with;
such as playing with movement and exposing pictures to get a black bkgrnd.