EX: if your concentration is about freedom vs. imprisonment, you could use rope (representing imprisonment) to create movement lines in your background.
Ex: if your concentration is about natural herbs used in cooking, you can use those actual herbs ground up to make a paste and include into the paint layer. (this may not be seen, but its a symbolic part of your process)
Ex: if you concentration is about a tragic fire, you could take actual ash and use it as a media within your piece. (be sure to take photos of you burning to create the ash and be under the watchful eye of an adult )
Ex: if your piece is about the dangers of rumors, you could photocopy rumors of what people are saying (I'm assuming online rumors) and use them in the background of the overall piece.
MARK BRADFORD--FOCUS ON THE PROCESS!!
Art21 Mark Bradford link: https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s4/mark-bradford-in-paradox-segment/
Want to find out more? Check out these other Mark Bradford interviews!!