Developing ideas - which one to go with

I have explored the idea of Outside In as well as the outsider feeling happy about being the one that is different. These were some of my thoughts and experiments about turning things inside out. But it looked dull and I couldn't think where to take it than to make the book the object and turn the pages and cover inside out, so that the index etc. was on the front and the pages stood outwards instead of within the book cover. But I was still not entirely sure where to take the images.
 

 

  

So then I looked at the idea of having funny scenarios of putting a man amongst a queue of pregnant ladies, or a young child bouncing high on a hopper in a fitball class. But again it didn't flow and I couldn't quite see where I was going.

 

 





And I started to make a concertina book using letters and turning one around. I didn't use the alphabet as in my original sketch, but the word outsider in German with the letter t turned round. If you are an outsider, you do feel foreign and it was this concept I wanted to get across. If you don't know German, you won't know what it says. Auyenseiter means Outsider. Concertina books work well when you want to show something as a whole as I did with this word. Even if you can't read the word, you would know there is something odd about the letter t just by looking at it.

Auyenseiter is German for Outsider