Balls of photography

Inspired by Sachiko Abe with 'Cut Paper', I began using a similar cutting motion to my grids of photographs. The repetative process of the cutting almost became the work itself, I found it quite medatative and in a way felt a sense of control doing it. I then began to roll up the strips of paper into ball like shapes, being suggestive but still hiding the images almost.
This idea represents how easy a problem can be easily ignored/ thrown away (like a scrumpled up piece of paper in which these ball like shapes look familiar to).

If this idea was to be taken further, the balls of photographs would be much larger and there would be much more of them...taking up a corner of a room maybe, which I think would give a stronger outcome to the idea.

Body Casting

I found the Body Double works really interesting, especially the pieces from the 'Prosthetics' series in which she has done casts of sections of her own body. This inspired me to cast my own body, which I planned to work over with text.
I attempted to cast the upper torso of my body, from my hips to my neck but the alginate impression material I used was the wrong kind and so didn't work how I hoped....I will attempt this again but using casting plaster.

Julie Rrap

Julie Rrap 'Body Double' brings together photography, video, sculpture and installation, exploring the persona of the ‘trickster’ in Rrap’s work, the theme of the ‘body double’, and the ways in which the artist oversteps the margins of bodily comfort.

Rrap explores representational issues relating to the body through media such as photography, video, sculpture and installation. Broadly influenced by activist politics, including feminism, Rrap often uses her own body in an uncompromising and compelling way to question perception and power structures.

Victoria Lynn, Guest Curator, comments: “Rrap’s representation of the body is never comfortable, as the figure is often fragmented, distorted or forced into different personas, inevitably raising ethical and aesthetic issues in relation to how we depict, interpret and understand the human form”.

http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/32/Julie_Rrap/1083/

After looking at the artist 'Kaarina Kaikkonen's work 'Hanging onto each other', I thought about working with clothing in my own work and so using the photographs I've used in previous development I transfer printed the images onto plain white tops.

Representing the same message as the other works; again the clothing is another cover up. Its a way of showing that clothing can hide whats underneith which in this case is the images printed onto the tops.

Further Experimentation

Weaving the Images, again to cover up/ hiding the images....representing 'control'

Basically layoring a selection of the images and spray painting over,
carving 'Control' tells the story

Wednesday 20th October

Leggate Theatre
Artist Performance- Andy Houlden
'Three Short Walks In Time'

http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/whats-on/search/andy-holden-three-short-works-in-time-p275461

I did'nt know anything about Andy Houlden or his work before seeing this performance, although I was suprised at what I saw. To be fair, I don'y know what I expected but I was nicely taken back when I saw the live orcestra and conductor with the set up on the stage.  I have never seen anything like this before, especially in art work but it was deffinately a great experience.

I enjoyed every part of the piece although I cant say I really understood what the work was actually about besides it investigating the relationship between sculptural objects and duration. The first word that comes to mind about the music is 'beautiful', it instantly made me feel relaxed and kind of made me shut off from everything around me. I found myself in a transe almost watching the conductor and his gentle, perfectly excecuted movement- he too was part of the art. It was also nice to see the connection between the artist and the the act, it gave me the impression that the work may be personal to himself almost. It made me question myself as to what he was trying to say through the performance. 

I found each section of the performance had a repetative process, from the images, the act in which he used the marbles, the video clips, sound to Andy himself speaking through a section of the work. I likes this incorporation to the work; 'We sat together the mountain and I till only the mountain remained'.
I think it creates a stronger reaction  and makes you remember the work. It reminds me of my work in a way, repetition is a key element in my development, representing 'control'...It was nice to see this in a different context and environment.

I suppose in a way, the performance made me question art and how in this particular work the musci speaks for itself and so the simplicity and unusual incorporations of the other elements worked really well. It has deffinately made me think about experimenting and maybe using music and sound in my own work. I think it gives art a completely different outcome and reaction, making it stronger as a whole.

Scale

I continued working with the photographs in the same way, gridded in a repetative layout and covering the images a little using different techniques; but just working a little larger.
If I was to take this idea further, the scale of the overall piece would be huge (taking over a whole wall maybe) although the images would remain small. I like how the viewer has to come close to the work to take in the images and text.

Repeated pencil scribbling, hiding the images

Repetative hand writing covering the images of the list of words
representing what goes on in the mind with an eating disorder

Stamped lettering from the list of words, again hiding the images.