With these samples I experimented with plaster, wood and metal. The underlying theme of my work is death and decay so with these pieces i wanted to explore and experiment with these ideas.
when I was able to get back in to the studio and workshop I was keen to experiment with something that involved me using my hands. These are small samples that were made by me creating using nails ansd wood to create spontenious structures which I then poured numerous layers of plaster over in different ways, dipping, painting, pouring I also mixed acrylic colours in to the plaster to create a layering effect.
Here I have been selective about the samples i have used, as I have a lot of work from this project but isn't possible to show everything. It was a project that helped me be totally experiemental knowing it was never going to be assessed. It was work just for me, which is something I have always done. My work is for me.
This was a project that allowed me to find myself in my art, and allowed me to practice my skills when it came to stitching, sewing and embroidery. And overall help me re-define and improve my practice. Along the same theme of the last piece's this pieces was about visually representing pain, anguish, control, constriction. through methods of stitch and the act of sewing. But through totally Fictitious means, a purposeful way to mislead, misguide. References of this are subtle, the illustration from child's story book, misleading imagery and newspaper quote. The colour in the piece is cold and lacking warmth.
These samples are raw, un-refined, lacking of any visible beauty or conventional elements for textile based samples. Sewn, pinned, pierced, stained and dyed, these work were about inflicting a sense of pain or visually representing pain in a sense of materiality. The exposed mouth, the intense tight and constrictive hand sewing and the sinister over use of pins, as a form of piercing and puncturing.
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