I’m currently working on my piece fo my final degree show, and the past 10 days I’ve been quite suprisingly productive.
Since January I’ve been working on a large…hmm well I guess ‘tapestry’ is the best word I could use but its not really. It consists of large pieces of fabric stitched together, with portraits of myself in machine stitch on top of it. The fabric is textured with torn bits of paper and painted with acrylic. It really is the definition of mixed media.
the first picture is an example of what it looked like a months or so ago…
As you can see from the other pictures the piece has now become clothing. I wasnt satsified with the piece just hanging like a dead weight on the wall. So I decided I would cut it up and make it into a suit as a way of expressing the meaning behind the work more clearly.
The suit represents a layer or skin …the surface of me. The bit that your worry about the most. The bit you always want to change. The stitched portraits of myself are delciate and have bits of torn paper and textures, representing the fragile human condition. I think the suit could lead to a really interesting video installation of me wearing it and even taking it off to shed the layer and let go of my insecurities.
(I only had my phone with me when I photographed the work..I’m going to retake the photos with my digital camera and replace them tomorrow)
