Traces Photography - Exhibition Layout and Printing

I decided on my 5 favourites from the final shoot which was made a lot easier by my evaluation of each image and the impact it had. Now that I had my final 5 chosen I experimented on Photoshop with how I could lay them out in the exhibition space. Here are my layout ideas:

1) This layout was my first idea because it was one of the ways I thought of to try and keep symmetry in my layout however I feel like all the different directions of the cutlery create a bit too much chaos even if I have tried to make it symmetrical.

 2) Here I have used that same symmetrical layout but this time I have shuffled a few of the images around so that the lines of the cutlery are as symmetrical as possible so there is much less chaos now. I like this a lot more than the first however I still feel it is very plain and doesn't make as much of an impact as I would like.

 3) I really like this layout a lot more because keeping it in squares is much more pleasing to the eye. It also makes a bigger impact because I would have 4 A4 prints to make the smaller square and then one large A3 print to be next to catching peoples attention. I would love to do this layout however because of limited exhibition space for the whole class to use I feel like mine wouldn't be displayed because it would simply take up too much room.

 4) This layout still makes an impact using squares and a larger print however it uses the space of the wall vertically rather than horzintally which means it wont take up too much room allowing other people to have plenty of space for their work too. I feel like at the moent this is the layout I would like to do in the exxhbition but I wont know for sure until I speak to the curators and find out what kind of space I have to work with.

 Ideally I would like to do layout 4 as it made an impact without taking up too much space however I am still concerned that this wont work in the space as I am still waiting to find out from the curators what area I have. If this layout isn't feasible then I would change it to layout 2 to keep it simple however I hope it doesn't come to this.

I will be going to the print room tomorrow to have my finals printed and I have made the decision this time to have them printed on glossy paper mainly because I want them to be as bold and brash as possible and I feel like the shimmer of this glossy paper will enhance that even further.

I then realised I needed a title to put with my pieces in the exhibition. So far I have been referring to them as Traces however because this name is in the project title for everyone I decided I needed something more in depth. I re-read over a lot of the words in previous posts to see what my main theme was and I seemed to keep mentioning in my final images how I love the way the plate is pure but then we leave all these leftovers which are unintentional traces. I do not want to title each picture however if I need to I would just refer to them as plate 1 through to 5. I would rather keep it up to the audience to read into each image themselves but by calling it 'Traces of Human Nature' which at least gives them a aspect to approach it from without giving too much away. They are then free to have whatever reaction they want to these neglected traces.