Final Piece Beginning Process

For my final piece I'm going to take 4 photos  representing the four main themes of contamination OCD.
-Contamination results in harm to self or others.
-Simple awareness that a contamination is just there.
-Bugs and concerns over bug related contamination  (which is different from phobias related to insects).
-Washing rituals as efforts to remove undesirable thoughts or ideas.
I'm going to print my OCD brain diagrams onto acetate then stick them to a window and have a model squash their face against it in a Jenny Saville looking way. I will add elements to each image to reflect the theme it's representing for example in the washing ritual image I will have my model put water and soap on their face and pose in a fashion to make them look as though they're washing themselves.

Thinking back to my brain scan and diagram research I've found some outlines of brains that I can label up myself to use in my final pieces.

I will modify this brain outline and label it to represent the thoughts and actions of an contamination OCD sufferer using the theme of 'Contamination results in harm to self or others.' I'm going to research the thoughts of an OCD sufferer and find out what specific things play on their mind then transform the thoughts into my own words. 

I've looked at various websites and summed up in my own words thoughts to represent an OCD sufferer within the harm to self or others theme. I'll label the thoughts and actions to the correct places in the brain. The Orbital Frontal Cortex is the part of the brain that notices something is wrong. The Thalamus receives a worry signal then sends it back to the OFC. 

-'I'll contaminate you'.

-'I'm going to make people ill'.

-'I'm going to make people die'.

-I'm going to kill my friends and family'.

-'I need to stay away from them or they will die'.

-Don't touch me, you will get ill'.

-I'm a horrible person'.

-Do I want to contaminate them?'.

-Do I actually want them to die?'.

I will repeat this process with the 3 other themes.

I experimented with these brain scans and the scanner.

These images are interesting but nothing like what I'd like to take forward into my final pieces. The quality of using a scanner as opposed to taking the images on the camera would be too minimal to print them in my desired size of A2.