Using existing objects.

I have taken influence from Erwin Wurm's work here and have experimented with using existing objects to distort the body, these trials inform my practical work and i use the ideas to then create my own objects to do a similar thing. I have used objects a way that we mite expect and also experimented with using the objects in a more unconventional way. I feel the latter works best at distorting the human form.

Distorting the figure - Link to Nicole Tran Ba Vang's work

Here i have tried another expriment using clothing to distort the figure, i have also included a link to Nicole Tran Ba Vang's work who creates new items like second skins to distort the human form. The work also looks at how a figure can be made to blend into the surroundings which makes it seem like an object and transforms the figure.

Using clothing to munipulate the figure.

Here is one of my first experiments using clothing to change the shape of the figure, here i have been using multiples of the same garment to distort the body. The clothing is worn in an unusual way. I have also experimented with the effect when underwear is worn as outerwear, this challenges our preconceptions of underwear.

Man Ray, link to his work, turning a human into sculpture and my own attempt

Link to photos on Flickr

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.

Link to Chalayan Husseins work who inspired me to create objects to adorn and distort the human body.