Daily Archives: 1st Dec 2020

WAWWA WEEK 6

The Body

I made some quick ink drawings just in responce to the images and sexual themes i was disscussing and exploring in my work last week. Though I don’t find these to be successful on there own it gave me some space and time to think about if this sexual element was somthing i wanted to continue with or if it had ran its course.

I think the colours red has came up repeatedly in the project as I feel it carries with it this feeling of urgency in as well as this kind of secretive, sexual nightly connotation when i pare it with the dark spaces I am creating (bedroom, darkroom and cutoff spaces)

Feeling Trapped

Following my crit it was picked up on about my use of wire and caged shapes i had exploed right at the beginning of the project. So i decided to play around with it a bit more and use my scanner to see what type of images i could come up with. They hold this feeling of being pushed and uncomfortable.

I Think they work well together as a set of images as well as individually n their own. The contrast of my soft pale flesh and this hard metal work really well in the sense that they have been put together unwillingly and forcefully.

I think if one of the images were to be scaled up to the side of a wall it would amplify the feeling of pressure and urgency for escape.

Using 4 peaces of string the same length as the edges of the paper I was using i played around with mark making to kind of represent the patterns or moments I has making while working in my room (between the four walls). I think they are successful 2D works in the sense of shape and movement and it was a was a good exercise to just play around with materials without having the overthink conceptually or be too concerned with the outcome.

These are works looking at the photographs I have taken in the past 2 weeks with a specific focus on the colour pink.

WAWWA WEEK 5

Sexual Communication Changes

Going forward with the project i really wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone and explore the underlying sexual tones of my work. For the following images i wanted to ephasise the uncorftablity and restictive nature when taking/sending nude images to a sexual partner. As my people are now sending exploitive images/videos due to the current circumstances. It is almost expected and common place for young woman to take these sorts of images as i cant think of one person in my life that hasn’t sent a nude. I have also been reading a-lot about how sex work has changed for young women now making money from these images with sites like Only Fans.

I took a material and object i hated (a plastic pillow that normally sits on my bed) cut it into strips and sewing them together before wrapping them round my body. The uncomfortable nature of the pillow i feel was communicated in the images below as is pulled and rapped restrictively round myself.

Sex Work

I also played round with where and how i wanted to lay/sit and the lighting the images were taken in. The pink light i feel echoed the kind of night time secrecy i feel is associated with sex. I especially like the over exposed pink images as they have this kind of venerability about them as its clear i’m not the one taking these images reflecting that i’m maybe not in control with the situation ; trusting someone to take them and not share them.

Government Sexual Guidelines

Reflecting on this week

I feel like has really pushed me out of comfort zone and feel like iv made good progress in the project so far. moving forward i maybe want to go back into doing 2d work is i feel it my be a brake from the researching and might let my ideas form more naturally through experimentation.