Latex Bustier, around 297 x 420 mm, 2014.
Friday, 2 May 2014
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Drawing Studio Practice
When I think of certain people certain objects appear into my mind. Objects that either resemble them, they often use or fit their personality. So I decided to explore this. My Project is based on people in my life that I associate with objects.
For Research I firstly drew objects that I affiliate with people such as bottles, scissors, microphones etc.. Then I sketched from life and from photographs the people in my life that I associate objects with. I did these drawings in a linear style like that of David Hockney and slightly more detailed drawings like that of David Epstein.
Developing my work I tried different ways of combining the objects and people together to demonstrate that they were connected. At first I drew the objects directly onto the portraits of people however I felt that the extent of lines made it too harsh. So I experimented with using tracing paper, inspired by the work of Francis Alys, and acetate. Furthermore I drew the people on the real life physical objects that I associated them with, though I realised later that this was not worth pursuing as some objects would be incredibly hard to draw on top of.
So I revisited the idea of drawing objects on top of the portraits of people and found that some of the facial features fit inside the object as a sort of frame. So I drew a partial portrait in the composition of the object that I associated them with. I found that doing this in a line drawing lacked depth so I pursued the drawing in a more detailed way like that of Jacob Epstein. This is what I did for my final piece.
Sculpture Studio Practice
Eva Hesse
Researching the work of Eva Hesse I came across her latex work which looks like hanging skin. Therefore this inspired me to use latex as my primary material due to it's clear and flesh like qualities. Furthermore latex is used in costuming to create fake skin.
I looked at my cuts and bruises and experimented with covering these with latex. I did this by photographing the cuts and bruises on my body and face covered by small bits of latex and without. I also tried creating a cast of my arm in plaster and covering the scars by pouring latex on top of it. Furthermore I attempted to create an arm out of latex, a thin layer to go on top of my skin. However I ended up pouring the latex too thick as it was hard to cast due to the runny nature of latex. I also looked at stitches. Sewing latex together to look like stitches.
Researching skin cells I decided to create a sort of second skin armour out of latex in the sort of shape of skin cells as it covers my blemishes in patches in which they form. Inspired by chain-mail, the way it interlinks I decided to interlink little pieces of latex.
I tried to fix it together in the manner of stitches by sewing them individually together however this took too much time so I used glue.
Inspired by Franc Fernandez' meat dress for my final piece I will have created a garment out of latex that will look much like this.
Franc Fernandez
Jacob Epstein
Jacob Epstein was born in America on 10th November 1880 and died in August 1959. He moved to Europe in 1902 and became a British citizen in 1911. Primarily known as a sculptor he often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what appropriate subject matter was for public artworks.
However I have been influenced by Epstein's portrait drawings which are simple without lots of exaggerated shading and detail yet still retain realism.
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