Art

My Business Cards coming Tuesday 

The final show is Wednesday the 16th of May. So far my final videos are sorted I have 11 in total. I was going to play them on my USB on my tv but my tv will only play images and music so I had to make a 6 hour repeated video of my videos so I can play it through the internet at uni on my PlayStation. round the back of, my boards. I’m going in tomorrow to do my final clean and touches to make it perfect but its all hands on deck. 

Show Layout 

As it nears to the end of my course I decided everything I've looked into has come to me as an artist wanting to make sex a non-taboo subject matter for the public, to make it the norm almost. a part of everyday life. So I took everyday boring household chores and replaced the items with sex toys and bondage wear. As I go I will upload them to my playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMMIySyjFPhlCiMdLAn5JMw072tcDk-XE , I also started to look into how I wanted to present my finale pieces and after talking to my tutors I feel as though an everyday setting, like the normal living room, the basics to give it that feel but still in a gallery setting. I have a through Ideas as an armchair, tv unit, and flatscreen, maybe rug and photo for the wall but its better to take away if you have too much. I feel this will give the piece its shock factor but still showing that it's all about making sex the norm and that its nothing to be ashamed of or not to talk about the subject matter. And to rub it in towards prude people. 

After I created my 3 clandestine images using the plotter and gloss spray paint, I wanted to look into what I was trying to achieve with the images, not just the way they looked and the technique but the sexual behavior, the secretive, I then I thought I wanted to remove sexuality from someone. I was interested in female sex dolls and how males are saying they are going to marry their purchases in the future and how they don't need females to reproduce and will just physically make a baby(robot). Which then lead me to remember that there was a report saying they females won't need males anymore as in the future they will be able to make sperm out of someone DNA no matter their gender so females could reproduce with females which is much more likely than all women going out of fashion because of sex dolls. Then I was interested to see male sex dolls, and not surprisingly there was nothing amazing, barely a scratch on what female sex dolls look like. So I wanted to de-masculise a male by replacing his genitals with a dildo, just to prove the more likely ending of this gender war to reproduce. So to create this I took a nude image of a male and took away his blemishes and genitals, I made sure the image looked clinical and cold, to give a sex doll feel. I then printed it out on the plotter and used a plastic frame on the image so that I could stick a suction cup dildo to the front. I was happy with the work as it was just something I wanted to make at the time.

Following from my last presentation and my power collection of photos. The word clandestine came up which means secretive. I wanted to carry on with this sexual dominance thing I’m rolling with. I took my model again and bought a bondage kit. And took pattern into mind. I wanted to feel like it’s someone’s home for a secret feel in the privatacy of their home or an older home. I loved how they turned out and I printed them onto A1on the plotter at uni. I had a little trouble darkness wise as the prints kept being too dark to see. But this is an issue I’ve faced before with my photoshop on my laptop it shows up a lot brighter on my screen. I finally adjusted it and once I had the prints I had to gloss them, I bought I few cans of clear spray paint I left I large boarder on the images so I could tape them down flat so the spray paint could lay flat. This was the tricky part because spray painting thin paper some parts took better than others, I think if I had more money I would of used a can per image but as it was £9 a can and I was trying to save money and try something new I didn’t. They still look good just wish I was able to dunk them in gloss.

I decided to play with blue light and fabrics, and white backgrounds I wanted to have a submissive and dominant feel to the photos, I also wanted them to feel private as if they took them or got someone very close to. I love the way these photos turned out, this was for my first silent presentation, which helped a lot because I got a lot of helpful feedback so I could develop further into what I wanted the viewer to see from my work.

I thought this was a good stepping stone for another project but I won’t be carrying on with baby Essex as it’s reached it’s tipping point I definitely learned a lot and I will take that further through the year.

Baby_Essex Edition 

Stereotype collection  

During my first assignment of my first two weeks of my third year of uni, I got set the task to look into cliche’s, after thinking about for a while I first came up with the idea of using stereotypes of England, set by the people of England because I found an image on Google referring to different countys as very blunt things, I wanted to put these words onto t-shirts by screen printing, and make a fashion line for the stereotypes, in a mocking way to show they didn't matter because for arguments sake, not all Essex people wear “Fake Tan” and so forth, but after discussing with my tutor I decided it was to board of a statement and could be read wrong, so I decided to take the stereotypes upon myself. and I had to think to myself what stereotypes could I be labeled under and I decided on doing four different stereotypes relating to me. I chose Essex girl, Dyke, Emo and Art Student. I felt these all could relate to me. But even though I could be taken under these labels I do not resemble what Google images say they do. I first went to Google and typed each of the four things I had chosen following the word stereotype E.g: Essex Girl Stereotype. and found four images of people that were under these categories. Form this I had to choose what medium I wanted to do as I had to do something I hadn't done before as part of the assignment, and I decided on performance. I wanted to dress like these people I had found images of but I needed a way to document it. So I looked at artists who had done performances or dressed up or documented things in odd ways, such as Yinka Shonibare and Juan Pablo Echeverri. And looking into their work I came up with using a photobooth to document my characters one by one and dressing up and going out into the world. I found this really hard as I was really out of my comfort zone, but I loved what I created and will perhaps take it further and look into more performance art work.     

“Estates” - Photo series London 2017 Birch