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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.

WAWWA Week 4

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.

WAWWA WEEK 2/3

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.

I then used a mix of ink and paint to create free flowing organic shapes and lines.

WAWWA WEEK ONE

Starting points

communication

starting the project i wanted to explore the way we have changed communicating with one another. Thinking about phrases that were not part of my everyday un till covid-19 and will probably continue within our language for the foreseeable future. again as i always want to start with text i feel i exhaust it quite quickly so started sketching screenshots of facetimes, zoom calls and texts i had had over lockdown. Thinking about how all are communication had been done over a screen and was all contained within boxes and rectangles. After exploring this idea of communication i decided to move forward thinking about restrictions and restraints that we have to cooperate with on a daily basis.

Tied up

following on from this idea of being physically restrictive on what we can do and where we can go now, i decided to illustrate this by using neon wire and physically tying myself up. I think the ones that i took in the dark create a very strong image and communicate that the focuses seems to be on the rules and restrictions rather than the person that is being held back (tied up).

boxed in

moving forward with the idea of being constrained i decided to make a wire cage, originally wanting to create a box with 6 sides but to make each side became so time consuming so just ended up making 3 squares and playing around with shape form line and shadow when taking images. I really like working with wire as a material and think id like to continue with this way of working as i feel i could expand on this idea of feeling trapped and caged by these current circumstances.

I also took sketches of my model with the different lighting as well as physically using it to draw, overlapping it and keeping my pen within each of the squares repeatedly. I liked this as it limited my movement to the singular space reflecting the current restrictions and how you can feel like going in circles repeating actions in such a small space.

Moving forward into next week i want to take forward the idea of feeling trapped tied and being restricted by the current covid-19 circumstances.