Jake Turner's project was entitled ‘The Chaos Beneath the Calm’. He made use of models, drawing and photography, combining them to hint at the dark side of suburbia. With a keen interest in film makers such as David Lynch, who portrays the suburbs as a melting pot of strange and dark happenings, Jake wanted to give the audience an unfolding set of clues rather than the whole story.
This approach was a departure for Jake. Whilst on work experience he had made sets used for a photo shoot for a national campaign and this together with a strong personal interest in confronting prejudices about suburban life drove his work into unfamiliar territory. He struggled to maintain his intended ambiguity between maintaining a sense of the reassuring make-believe inherent in a small scale model and the reference to a real and unspecified darkness, he struggled with his limited experience of photography and he struggled with the time limits a final show brings. However, Jake had a strong idea and personal interest and he did take his work into a fresh and interesting place.
