25 Original Ideas.

1. Healing: emotional not just physical, time.
   Use symbols such as the loral leaf, transformation poses or metamorphosis  Watercolor to blend in the surreal world and be a fluid passing of time. Figures letting go of objects, walking away, burying a box.
2. Commitment.
   Could integrate text of people's vows or promises. Cropped images of hands (Tina Modotti) for shaking hands, wedding rins, holding hands, pinky promises. Could integrate text, "So I cross my heart and I hope to die."Bold contrast of hands via charcoal and chalk. Other options could be still life of objects supporting weight, being a strong foundation, or even on the brink of collapsing. This would work well for oil paint to get rich color for vividness and contrast. 
3. Emotional slavery, blackmail, strings attached.
   Images of people as puppets, even in ordinary settings. Figures in types of bondage that are not sexual.  Could be photoshopped well through the use of multiple images. Something consistant perhaps in the background of drawn figures to represent the return to the same place due to guilt.
4. Limitations: limitations necessary to create, frustration, breaking them.
   Low reliefs made out of wood in which different parts of the human figure are trying to reach out. This would represent the senese of feeling stuck in a heavy world while trying to make something beautiful out of a material that is everywhere. 
5. Utopia & dystopia, the same or different.
   Showing parallel scenes as full of life and color compared to black and white static areas. It would be up to the viewer to determine which would be best for them. The different environments could include typical paths that people choose for their lives such as being a housewife, in a corporate business office, being in a cubical, or so on. 
6. Vagavon: A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.
   I'm interested in the idea of working with multiple drawings or photographs of couches, in different home environments, with perhaps a consistant element that indicates human presence. For example one purple backpack could be displayed on four different couches in four very different rooms to represent the idea of the same person traveling from couch to couch, looking for a place to stay that night.
7. Home: a house is not a home.
   I'm also interested in the idea of typical household objects broken and smashed to be painted as still lives. This would represent the idea of a fragility in a home, how the tangible parts of a house can still leave things broken, represent conflict, and show anxiety or tension.
8. DNA: blood is not thicker than water, family is not made through genes.
   Possibly working with photoshop in order to combine many images of different generations of family members among backgrounds of interior homes, while sneaking in an image of a person who does not belong to that family. The viewer would then have to try and figure out which person isn't an actual part of the family, and think about if direct lineage is necessary for family.
9. Anxiety.
   Still lives of fragile objects that are about to fall. I would like for crisp contour images with heightened contrast to show the tenseness and sharp feeling that anxiety brings on, when a panic attack can seem like there are only two extreme options. Black india ink would be ideal for these crisp contours.
10. Fear.
    I've been inspired by the photos of Anna Gaskell that show a surrealist version of fear and discomfort. I think photoshop could be used to show the same person in one scene going through various stages of a break down. I also like the idea of levitation photos in a dark world to show a dark outer body experience. Or blurring motion photography to show the inner state of a panic attack or fear in dark black and white contrast photos. 
11. Obsession: the internal obsession of external events.
    Photograph rooms that have been torn apart, as if a person has been obsessed over finding one particular thing. Draw a person who has been producing multiples of the same thing in pursuit of perfection. Photograph/draw excess amounts of household objects found from flee markets or in people's homes. Show the same object/person being zoomed in upon in different frames to represent an extremely heightened attention focus, go from wide angle to macro. 
12. Sense of self.
    Obviously one could work with multiple mirrors reflecting multiple images of part of the figure for photographs or drawings. One could have a different reflection in the mirror than the back of the head. Photos for self portraits like Cindy Shermann to reflect parts of our personality or alter ego that are inevitably the same person. 
13. Beauty.
    Appropriation and collage of magazine images. Drawing the same models on top, drawing an elderly woman on top of images of herself from her youth to show that youth is a superficial societal value but not necessarily true.
14. Control: need for it, the loss of it, understanding it.
    Still lives of objects in their place or in a certain confined area compared to objects that have been pushed out from it. Color drawing. Showing objects in a still life compared to the still life of the objects in the decaying process to show there are certain parts of life that we cannot control and are inevitable. 
15. Manipulation: control of another person without them knowing it, sex differences, distraction, man behind the curtain.
    Cropped enlarged color drawings of both sexes manipulating and being manipulated via money, drugs, sex, and secrets. Puppet strings, trickery, images of crossed fingers behind backs, unseen actions behind the figures back. 
16. Charade: ridiculous act of making something appear pleasurable.
    Photos of people with extreme face alterations of pulling, pushing, taping to make a smile happen. Scenes such as a family dinner, church visit, holiday event photoshopped to be in alignment with circus. 
17. Duress: threats to get someone to do one thing against their will.
    Integrated text ("You owe me, you have to, life or death, by 5:00pm) throughout a narrative of black and white graphite drawings where a person is originally contacted, threatened, destroying a scene, and left with nothing. Scenes could include letters, an open vault, a match after a fire, an empty room, files, ransom notes, or so on. 
18. Guilt: shame, blame, self deprecating, constraints.
    Neutral (sepia/black and white) drawings of figures burying themselves, putting more weight on themselves, locking themselves up, pushing down a ladder. Any image to represent a figure keeping themselves trapped in a situation, to represent the mental state you put yourself in when you allow yourself to feel guilty and dwelling on a situation. Images of people trying to go underground to represent shame in cellars, manholes, ditches, etc., 
19. Denial: to choose to not acknowledge or accept.
    Dull in color, slightly stylized, almost humorous, drawings of people going to great lengths to not acknowledge something. Multiple blindfolds, hand stuck in sand, three pairs of earmuffs and their hands over their ears. Referencing the icons of "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil." 
20. Absolution: to be released from punishment or obligation, declaration of forgiveness of sins
    Cropped images of being released or letting go. Blowing away something, washing hands, unlocking handcuffs, door opening from the darkness, erased writing, erased graffiti, clean slate. Generals wash could be a good medium for these images to represent the washing away, but not of a colorful happy situation like watercolor, but one that is still full of grey area and sadness.
21. Revelations: making secrets known.
    Both positive and negative, photoshopped collages including text of people's secrets and various media outlets including Facebook, iPhones, blogs, newspapers, websites, magazines, etc., Cropped facial images of people overlaid in various forms of surprise: Joy, shame, anger, sadness.
22. Color as life: "That's where the colors don't go", lifeless places.
    Scenes of rooms or areas in which bring me great joy or inner peace drawn in color fluidly, paired with a place in which I feel uncomfortable or unhappy drawn in static, low contrast graphite. 
23. Intuition: instinctive reaction versus apparent conscious thought.
    Dark colored pencil drawings in reference to Hopper. Two figures in various situations of questionable state. Being offered a ride, a drink, a kiss, lead away from the group. The viewer wouldn't know the stories of the character and have to decide for themselves if it was a normal situation or one that was not normal.
24. Fight or flight: to address head on or to flee from, or ignore.
    Four different figures in a "track" stance about to start running, the viewer has to decide if it toward or away from something. I think it would be better drawn in black and white to represent your body returning to basics and having to choose one or the other.
25. Exile: black sheep, excluded, looked down upon for differences.
    Photos of figure in wide, open spaces. Photos of figure in abandoned places. Children playing with handmade, unordinary toys in isolated, open places. Figures alone in a crowded room, again a reference to Edward Hopper.