I have decided to focus on this particular section of the painting as I was inspired particularly by the bedside table. I love the still life on the table, the silver tray with freshly cut fruits and how part of the table is cut from the viewer. This gives me the indication that we do not know if the fruit and juice are the only things on that table. Could we be blockaded from seeing something more? I am also inspired by the messy crinkled sheets beside the table. This exact picture of 'a morning after', could it have been a deep sleep or perhaps a night of lust. I can see it is morning through the artists use of light coming through the left side of the painting, reflected on the oranges. I love the nets pattern wall paper, with floral accents in between each net. This alongside the lace pillow trim and brocade table cloth, this scene gives for a romantic mood. Lastly, the way in which I have photographed the picture, has included some of the frame also. I wanted to included the frame because I believe it is also a major part of the artwork. It gives the photo a sense of status and importance. I will want to research into frames in jewlery and this gather ideas of frames in clothing to include in my design ideas. I have also cut of the figure in this image, leaving only the curs of her hair on show. Could she be asleep, maybe dead, or maybe laid beside her lover, or another? By exploring this image I have been able to cultivate many ideas to take further in my project. I would liken to push forth the mesh pattern and the ideas of frames in my designs and explore the idea of the bed sheets as being a key symbol to sleeping forever (death sleep) and secret between the sheets (adultery).

Inspired by...

• Poor quality vintage paparazzi photo - faded effect
• Dianna's light orange swimsuit print with flower motif ~ similar to my print designs in my sketchbook
• Sky blue background ~ similar to sky print in my sketchbook and relating to heaven
• This photo looks like its almost from a dream place, like heaven.  It plays a image in my head of Dianna and Dodi would be like in heaven, embracing their love, amongst the clouds.

• I'm inspired by... the diamond cross hatch design of the iron fence. I love the plants coming through the fence, almost reminds me of my Diana memorial piled plant print. I have gotten an idea to layer the cross sticking on top of one of my prints. This will give it more depth. Could I possibly use a print and layer it with some diamond mesh material? or make my own mesh material to layer over my prints?
• The white dots in between the croses remind me of the tuffs in between mattress and inspire me to put gems or sequins inside the tuffs of my samples. 

Inspired by...

• the stain is faded in the middle but pigmented around the edges, it reminds me of the gem framing. I could use the idea of the pigment need edge to experiment with framing the print design 'mattress stains' with my gold gems.
• the tufting of the mattress, creates three dimensional padded effect, this will be interesting to experiment in areas of the body. 
• The padded effect reminds of light weight fabrics that would allow the wearer to almost float
• I love the diamond pattern created from the placement of the tuffs, it reminds me of the mesh serving domes I saw by kitchen wear designer Mackenzie Childs at the Harrods store.

After the Grayson Perry talk, I was inspired to look at some of his pottery work. I came across this pieces entitled 'Good Old England'. England is renowned for their tea -usually depicted in a beautiful periwinkle and white fine china teacup. In reality a true English 'cuppa' would be sat in a faded 'footie' mug the size of a pint. I love how Grayson has captured his rendition of the famous English tea cup by almost meshing both of these ideas into his piece. His use of blue ink on top of the off-white ceramic resembles the style of fine china in contrast with the not-so-fine assembly of the piece. I believe he has purposefully left areas of the clay to be exposed creating this interesting disassembled version of a cup of English tea.

This piece makes me think of the deep context that surrounds my Harrods project. This idea of the utopian with the reality of the imperfect. The 'Good Old English' cup of tea isn't as perfect as the world makes it to be. This reminds me of relationships in marriage. This idea of what the world demands to be perfect and pristine but in fact is usually half-baked and broken. This makes me think of all the picture-perfect instagram couples who flaunt their relationships and colossal wedding rings all over the internet, but in fact are unhappy and not sincere in their love. Sometimes the most marvellous cups of tea are not served in the most beautiful of containers .

Inspired by... the peculiarity of the 1997 memorial at Harrods...

• There really is something extraordinary about the 1997 memorial in comparison to the one the stands at Harrods today. From the bright yellowish gold frame work to the placement of flowers, all scattered over the table. Comparing this to todays memorial I saw at Harrods, there was far more 'greenery' from the flowers visible than the actual flowers themselves. This is interesting, as it reminds me of sort of fields of flowers rather than flowers set for a memorial. Flowers for memorials are usually more colour and less green, where as the 1997 one for Dianna and Dodi seem to be the opposite.

• Gold circular/oval framing of photos, has a feeling of importance and love. When photos are put in a curved shaped frame, this usually is to frame ones face, a significant other. Someones face who you love to admire often when looking at the frame. Naturally we feel a sense of comfort and homeliness around curved objects, as comparison to rigid straight lines objects and shapes. I am inspired by the use of round framing in the couples memorial at Harrods, and would like to integrate this motif into my designs.
• I find it fascinating and interesting that in the late 1990s where this memorial would have been built, the memorial designer must have been 'not too bothered' about the fact that the chosen photos of Dianna and Dodi had mismatching backgrounds. That seems like a very 90's thing to do in my opinion to just ignore 'asthetics' and go with 'whatever'. This however if was to be built today would never be done in this way if not for solely intentional reasons, with photoshop technology at its highest, there would be no reason otherwise. Especially if related to a member of the royal family where standards should be at its highest.
• Now I guess you can say that the background colour of ones photo for a memorial is unimportant, however I find it compelling almost slightly amusing that they are incredibly mismatched. I highly doubt this was intentional. I usually find little things that are usually negligible to be huge forms of inspiration and I love to have encountered this mishap. Also I realised that the photo I took of the memorial recently, Dianna and Dodi had a same background colour of greenish-grey. Some one eventually must have realised the mismatch of colours and decided to change it to fit the standards of today. Unfortunately I have not found any information as to why the memorial seemed to change, who did it or why but nevertheless this becomes interesting for me to use. Just when I feel I needed to introduce another colour into my project to balance the green and the golds, the Dodi Blue seems a perfect fit.

Inspired by...

• the collection of flowers remind me of the bouquet's at Diann's memorial
• the reflection of the sunlight on the shallow river
• the shallow river exposing the grass and plants under the water
• looks like a perfect setting for using for collage for creating the 'Harrods Heaven'. I love the water path leading to somewhere. Reminds me of the pathway to heaven, or like the road to wonderland, from story Alice in wonderland.

I find the elevator from Harrods the most interesting part of the building in terms of structure and detail. It is such luxurious small space, covered in golden mirrored decor and accents. I love the attention to detail that covers the space, from floor to ceiling. I find this intriguing because this is no ordinary elevator, you would come across in, for example an office or dentistry, the type that in dull, grey, steel walls. 

I like this idea of the elevator journey being as much a leisure as other areas of the department store. It is not an obvious one, but one we have all embarked upon at some point in our childhood. The short but thrilling ride of the elevator, and that moment the doors open, remind me of a familiar scene of the discovery of Narnia throughout the wardrobe doors in the novel, the lion the witch and the wardrobe by CS Lewis. This idea of two large doors opening to another dimension.

Having gathered these ideas, I would like to included this mystery of whats on the other side? in my own work and design. I would like to explore this idea of hidden elements to 'other worlds' in this project, inspired by the Harrods elevator.