Tuesday 24 April 2007

Link to photos on Flickr

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More art work, Link to Rebecca Horn's work which was greatly inspirational as she elongates and distorts the body.





Over the last few days i have continued working with the theme of distorting the human form and making figures part of the sculpture, i would like to look into creating a piece that the viewer has to become part of, this is a step further from ideas i have looked at in previous projects where the viewer enters into a work, here the viewer becomes part of it and are then able to see the work from a completely different perspective. I have been experimenting with face paint and creating marks onto my face and photographing my face. Distorting my face using things such as shaving foam to block off features, sellotape to distort the skin and masking tape to create an unusual texture. I have then started to experiment with cardboard structures which can be worn by the figure to change their body shape. Creating masks and unusual outlines of figures. This afternoon i experimented a bit more with the wax trousers i made, asking someone to place them on their head and to hold them on their arms, the trousers distort perspective and are quite humerous, people react well to them. Walking down the street creates a reaction from passers by. I have taken the trousers to photograph them in different settings, changing their context. I want to start to munipulate some of the images i have taken and other images of people using photoshop and to start experimenting with textile work.