Body Workshop
In this workshop we were tasked to draw ourselves using a mirror. This was quite challenging as it is difficult to draw what you look like, as opposed to what you think you look like. We looked into the work of Kiki Smith and so we focused mainly on recreating our face and hands to a high degree of detail, I tried to recreate her style in my piece. Her piece I have posted above focuses mainly on these sections and the clothes and rest of the body is drawn in a simpler style. Kiki Smith is a feminist and her work surrounds a lot of issues regarding women, sex, rebirth and generation. She also created a lot of figurative work surrounding AIDS. She became an emergency practical technician in an attempt to learn more about the physical anatomy of the body, reflecting this in some of her art.
