because i wanted you to know
The piece below is a short video filmed and edited by me, exploring the body and its comfort zone.
In the video, I explore human fragility by comparing spines and wrists to one another. Along with that comparison, I use the sound of bodies moving in bedsheets to portray comfort and protection within that fragility.
I move on to explore other forms of the body such as the one of a swan, resembling the shape of pillows and the creatures that I've drawn and sculptured. As well as that, I explored the texture of moving water as it relates to the process of rusting which I introduce later through the use of a cutting knife and the spine again.
Lastly, I used pillows and their negative space to portray a sense of distance which I use in my collages and will develop on, in my design development.
The repetition of the sentence "because I wanted you to know" followed by the stabbing of the pillow illustrate a cry for help on my history to self-harm which links to my concept on the tragic love story.
re-use: objects x environment
For this environment, I cut a small piece of a plant at Barbican Centre, exactly where I used to sit with my former boyfriend.
In this environment, I'm exploring the brittle texture of the dried leaf against the resembling texture of the rusting cutting knife.
In my observational drawings, I portrayed the leaf's brittleness and breakability as well as the contrast of the edged knife, which is then softened by the rusted look, reinforcing fragility in another way.
re-use: objects x environment
In this setting, I explored the failed concealment of identity as the bag is actually see-through and you can see directly into the cigarette butts.
re-use: objects x environment
For this setting, I used Joseph Beuys' "Lightning and Stag in its Glare" because Beuys' used found objects himself to make the sculpture, which I found very interesting.
I edited the rubber cables (one of my objects) in the sculpture to fortify the suspension of the piece.
re-use: objects x environment
The cutting knife is again an object that I previously used to inflict pain on myself so I have a very upsetting history with that object. I sympathised a lot with Rebecca Horn's "Dreaming Under Water" Performance as it was a very emotional and aggressive video where she cuts big sections of her hair, using scissors in quick and sharp movements.
The fragility portrayed in this environment is mostly emotional fragility as well as the representation of how fragile humans can be and how quickly we react to pain.
re-use: objects x environment
At the Tate Modern, I found Dóra Maurer's piece "Timing" an interesting contrast between my umbrella. I found that the contrast between foldings in each cloth and objects is very telling of the function of the object.
Although they both contain this effortless and fragile presentation.
habitat/habit: final outcome
sculptures
These are the creature sculptures I made in response to the observational drawing at the Tate Modern. I'll use them and the drawings I make of them in my collages and development work.
I decided to make them from excess modelling material that people, from Uni, were going to throw away.
I deliberately made them very small so that the viewer can depict the sculptures' breakability. The brittle texture also helps to portray them as fragile.
re-use: objects xenvironment
The first item I chose was a small china shoe that I was gifted a long time ago by the person I am basing the project on.
I went to the charity shop in which he bought the object at and edited it in a larger scale with its earliest surrounding.
In here, fragility is seen through the way the object is prone to break, how delicate the actual china material is.
re-use: objects x environment
Inside of one of the objects I found in Barbican, I found that the small pieces of dirt resembled, in a very abstract way the houses in Barbican.
I see this through the similar colour scheme and the particular pieces of greenery that when enlarged could be the background's plants in the vases.
re-use: objects x environment
habitat/habit: final outcome
pairs: final outcome
pairs: timeline prints: close ups
pairs: string installation
Savannah and I created this installation in order to inspire shape for our next steps as well as a 3D response to the exhibitions, something interactive towards an audience.