30th Oct 2020 – CHARLEY MILLAR ART

Restrictions on the body

Moving forward with the project i wanted to play around with photography and using my body as a medium.

Thinking about restrictions in terms of material using plastic has this overwhelming and obvious connotations of suffocation and feeling confined. String carries with it these similar connotations as well as it also being quite soft and flimsy unlike plastic.

NEON

with inspiration from artists like Tracy Emin and Bruce Neuman i had wire from a prevoius project iwanted to play around with wraping it apround my body creating these amazing images.

My favouire images atre the ones where they resemble pants as i think they carry with them these sexual connotations about the restrictions. Focus on the sex and forbiddances of it because fo the current circumstances making it almost even more desirable and highlighting its absence.

Restrictive Patters

starting this week i wanted to explore this idea of how my normal routine had been boxed in or interrupted by current restrictions and rules. I thought one way i could pursue this would be through using repeated circular patterns as i think this encompasses ongoing repeated days. I also think it also still produces free flowing easy lines even when layered on top of each other.

Onto of these i then wanted to interrupt the pattern so i experimented using block patterns and stitching into the paper around the shapes as well as holding them together.

Boxed In Printing

I wanted to make a print to represent the 7 weeks we were in official lockdown so decided boxes to represent each of the days layered over free flowing more organic shapes and brush strokes would work well. The contrast to represent the lack of control and the control would work well. It also shows the contrast of flexibly of daily life before in contrast to the 49 days spent in lockdown.