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I fear these pictures do not do this piece justice. It took so long to put every single nail into place that I only managed to finish it the day before the assessment so I had to get pictures of it before it dried. I'm hoping it'll look better in person when it's being assessed
this piece serves as a sort of intermediate development between my print works and the canvas that I made. It looks nice next to the other development that I made with my print refuse and nails. A depiction of a stranger made by a stranger out of paper saying stranger
I glued nails onto a piece of paper I used for a mask whilst printing and then drew round each of the nails with a white posca pen to make them pop a bit more. I think this piece has a nice 'neo-expressionist' quality to it. not what I usually go for but nice none the less
these are the prints I did during the monoprinting workshop, presented as a series. I like how these showed how my thought process evolved with each successive print, with each of them saying something about the experience of being a stranger and the consideration of that experience

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My stranger. This was the final result of me making a stranger after my mannequin aspirations were quashed by Customs. Its well creepy. It looks like something one might find in an abandoned mental institution. Who made it? what was wrong with them? why did they make it? it was me that made it and I like how mental it looks
Cardiac bondage shroud. It's like a gimp mask but for the human heart. The heart is usually used as a metaphor for the true self. A gimp mask is used to obfuscate identity. So, having a gimp mask for a human heart serves as a visual metaphor for the state of being a stranger. I like how 'hand crafted' this piece feels. It was a lot of fun to make. Might make it into a wee handbag in the future
my big black spike. I just like how this piece gives some jaggy, pointy boldness to my ensemble. It's just a piece of black paper rudimentarily folded but it gives the impression that it has a monumental qualit. I could imagine this huge and made of steel in the lobby of some corporation. and I like that. Which seems to me is embodying the stranger as most artists I've met don't like and wouldn't want to involve themselves with such 'soulless' pursuits
I wanted to include some other of the accoutrements of my process for making work. The boots I used to make my 'footprints'. When they're sat by themselves, they give the same impressions as the gloves nailed to the wall. I also like how their position mirrors that of where they were for my p&e set up. The glasses are representative of my performance-like response to being asked to do a presentation. The eyes are the windows to the soul, so obscuring them is an easy way to make a stranger of oneself
I wanted to include these works from the index Workshop because though they were for the index Workshop, it was when I started embracing being 'the stranger'. I felt mighty strage smearing paint and punching the paper wearing these gloves. I bought them specifically because they were black and creepy as that aligns with my natural propensities. I thought it would look nice to nail the gloves to my wall. Because though they're relevant in that they were used in my work they also have the effect of raising questions like why are there gloves nailed to the wall, what where they used for, to whom do they belong?

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Black Metal
A genre of music that knows its fanbase are 'strangers'. It embraces tropes and aesthetics that are usually considered taboo and disturbing by conventional standards. Lore of the antics by members of certain bands serve to deepen the strangering of the fanbase. The use of real blood and animal heads to deter those 'untrue' and dressing up in clothes that had been buried to obtain the scent of the grave
spiked leather accessories were commonplace with heavy metal bands. Black Metal artists took that idea but replaced the studs with real and sharp nails to extreme affect. These constructed accessories serve no other purpose than to declare those wearing them as strangers. They're impractical, dangerous, and look mental by conventional standards, but I've always found the creativity of that aspect of black metal fascinating
at some point during HND I decided to aim to make at least one canvas per project. Canvases are such a solid medium and when they're fully realised they have good impact. It was a natural point to get to from the other work I had been doing. Painting things black to covey darkness and the unknown and nails within a silhouette to visually represent the danger and anxiety that comes with encountering 'strangers'. This piece took a long time and hurt my fingers. And I think there was something about that that made me feel like a stranger. Working on something to the point of pain isn't usual and most would not do so
So I initially wanted to create my own 'stranger' by buying a fabric mannequin and painting it black. But unfortunately, after ordering it, it got stopped by Customs and sent back. Which was annoying because I had neither the time nor funds to just buy another. I had to think 'laterally' and decided I'd still make my 'stranger' but on a smaller scale. I crafted a wee human shape out of blue roll, tape, and a painting of a silhouette. I still want to make a big black scary mannequin, so hopefully, I might be able to in the next bit
Mental Illness
mental illness has a way of othering a person and rendering them a stranger. It's quite sad. But there's certain visual conventions surrounding those in the throes of poor mental condition that just appeals to me so much. The repetition of certain phrases, ascribing grandiose meaning to something elsewise meaningless, deranged scribbling. love it
the drawings of some schizophrenics for example. just has this intensely eerie and uncanny quality that I just can't get enough of. They always draw these anguished expressive faces that perfectly capture the state of despair. And I feel I should mention the music project that made use of the troubled shrieking of actual mental patients
Experimentation

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Finalising one of my Developments
After cutting the heart out of the wrapping that I'd made, the idea of putting in eyelets and a lace fastening (akin to that of a gimp mask) came to mind. A gimp mask is used to obscure one's identity so the idea of having a gimp mask for a heart seemed like some sort of visual metaphor. 'the heart' is emblematic of someone's true nature and thoughts so to obscure that would make someone a stranger. So I bought an eyelet punch and I rather like the final result
Presentation
So we were asked to do a presentation summing up what we'd been doing for visual language and where we thought we'd be going with it. What I latched onto, though, was the part that said we could do it anyway we wished. That got me thinking about how to make the strangest presentation in the class. One of the options was to pre record a presentation to play on the day, so I thought to use a text to speech program to 'read' my presentation. So, a digital 'stranger' was presenting my presentation on the stranger brief. Then I thought to present it by standing there and not saying anything whilst the digital voice talks to the audience. I had a balaclava from a project I did in the HND, so I thought to wear that whilst 'presenting' along with some sunglasses to hide my eyes. Whilst you could not see my eyes, you could see the eye of the disembodied digital voice via a video I made for the background. Presenting without presenting, strangering myself to 'normal' protocol