My decision for my project.

From looking at my posts thus far you'd have an idea that I'm doing this project on tattoos. Sadly, you'd be wrong. Tattoo's were my original idea yes, hence the three bubbl.us that currently have a place on my blog. However, I was sat here some three hours ago about to write this very post about how I got to my decision to focus on tattoos when I had a brain wave.

I was actually thinking about how I'd admitted to entertaining the idea of doing this project on Leukaemia after my cousin sadly suffered from it when we were little. This is something I don't often talk about as it upsets me. This led to me thinking about my friend Adam. Adam was a friend from school who sadly took his own life on the 26th August 2010. Thinking about Adam and how his death affected us all made me realise that I'd like my project to focus on the effects of suicide, the statistics and the questions it raises.

I sent Adam's mother a message asking her if it would be okay for me to use Adam and our experience with the loss of him as an example. I would never have even written about the thought of this idea if she hadn't said she was okay with it. Her reply could not have been more supportive and thankfully, she is behind this idea 100%. There is one condition to her backing me however, and that is that even though she is completely fine with me using her experiences in my assignment, she would appreciate it if I didn't share what she tells me with anybody else. For me this needn't have been said. I have no plans for anybody who knew Adam to see this assignment, or even know about it.

So my project will start off as my friends and then branch out to Adam and the loss of him, while incorporating the effects of suicide and artists who use loss / suicide in their art.