Triptych

I have chosen a quote from the book Missing Out: In Praise Of The Unlived Life by Adam Phillips to base my work upon. The book is a discussion of the ways in which your fantasies can ruin or haunt your real world experiences. He goes into great detail about the way humans react to different levels of missing out, not getting what they want, and actually getting what they want.

The quote I have chosen is based on the way fantasies and reality collide when falling in love. However I plan to take the idea in the more broad sense. 

In my work I have interpreted the writing on the three frustrations as need and desire, discouragement, and disappointment. 

I am looking forward to finding metaphors and imagery to represent this idea. My tutor, gary, directed me towards a triptych method of making work, to show a movement or change in each of the images to reflect the different emotions.