I became impatient.
Those readers who know me, will know this isn’t unusual.
I had intended the layered piece to be a piece on its own, the research, the experiment from which other works would follow. But actually, in itself, it wasn’t that interesting. As a material to be used for something else, it became far more so. So after all that time of layering and stitching, I have started to cut into it.
Now the layers can be seen it is like a serving of lasagne, as opposed to a dish of lasagne.
I cut a circle, and cut two slots into it, and buttoned them together to make the baby mask.
This is an interesting thing now.
It has become a sinister thing.
A protective item, soft things layered into an unyeilding whole. Definitely protective, but perhaps also smothering. This is getting me somewhere. This duality of protection and harm is where I at least, am comfortable… but uneasily so… you see…. Ambiguous. An attempt to protect that goes too far.
I put this photo on my facebook artist page, because Bo said he’d quite like a photo of it being worn, so that he could manipulate the image. His work with viruses and bacteria is developing very nicely, so the link with my protection issues is obvious.
Both of us grin in a sinister manner…
No takers… no artists with babies wanting a photo of their little one wearing this delicate piece… When I post photos of work I usually get a fair few likes and shares. This has hardly been looked at, it hasn’t been liked or shared.
I think I might be onto something.
