Final Project Research Pt. 1

Over thanksgiving break I thought alot what I wanted the theme of my piece to be and what kind of elements/objects I want to take place in it. I decided to relate it to the holocaust and mainly the horrible emotions that were felt and have taken place in concentration camps. So I visited my Grandfather who lives about 45 minutes away, he is a World War 2 veteran. Also he was one of the first squadrons to clear out some of the concentration camps that they overtook from the germans. While I was there he talked about what it was like in those areas and the stuff that he saw, it really is moving the horrid acts that he witnessed taking place. My Grandfather also wrote me a description of everything that he could remember when the raided the camps. I have that information to help me refrence my drawing toward. So far my idea is to have the main focal point of a weak/malnourished man on the ground getting dragged towards darkness by his feet. But the I want to the piece to be mostly a dark black color but I want the background to be lit up by maybe fire chambers. I definetly need to think of some more objects to include in the foreground and the background to make an intresting composition.