Statement of were I am currently with my work and how i plan to progress

Title: The Loving Connections between people

My project currently explores the theme of bonds, intimacy and connections of love. My work is produced within this theme through art works in the form of bras, knickers and dresses. This was stemmed from my previous research exploring women’s responses to intimacy of their relationships via questionnaires.   To strength my work I have also researched the theme of intimacy through the media quoting stories from films, books and glossy women’s magazines. The presentation of the women is important and I explore this in the medium of stitch, embroidery and textiles that are traditionally a female dominated craft within art. My project is publicised through installations, performances and video projection which I have exhibited online.

 How I envision my work progressing is through the use of video. I have been researching the performance artist Stephen Willats and I admire how his work explores the intimacy and interaction between the wearer of his clothes and the participants. I am exploring this idea through my own practise by videoing myself whilst I stitch into garments worn by a model. The art work being produced will be based on the results of my questionnaires that I have asked the model on their own personal relationship.

Naomi Uman (Removed)

Jackie Passmore shown me this artist on Friday, it is fitting with me work in the sence of the Female. I see this video almost like the female artist is protecting the women.

Player Performance

When creating this set i was changeled with the idea of doing  a performance, and as the piece was al about exsposing the intermit i thought it was important for me to wear the piece whilst spreading cards with inforamtion on about my personal relationship, exsposing myself!!

Player

When considering stich and the feminine i thought about exploring other femine clothing and i thought of bras!
I have created a set bra and knickers titled player. i stiched on words pharses and collected information about peoples personal relationshiips, things that they do as couples that they think no one else does. i wanted to bring the intermit into the open. The reason i used playing cards is because of the conitation with women exposed pubicly in underwear is that they are slags hookers or players!
The cards also have a hidden self intermat relationship, when i was little on holiday as a family we played cards rigerously! every night on holiday before bed thats what we would do.

Exsposing the intermit...

Aswel as wearing the garment to add a sence of self i have also photographed it on a minican with one of the matching knickers i have created,

Love, Lovers, Loved

The images on the last post shpwed a turning point in my work. The textiles is flat it hasnt got any form, this is one of the reasons i started re adressing my work and thought about how to make it more 3D and relate the the female conitation of the textiles. i wanted to start truely appricating the notion of textiles. This is when i created Love, lovers, Loved.

it is a visual list of all the men in my live. the different colours are in refrence to war hero merit badges RED BLUE and GOLD. One of my male friends is a war hero and one of my heros, war is something that is normally assicated with men so when researching how to combine my male relatioship with textiles and dress i found it chalenging but i thought it was poient to have the male names on such a female item. When researching love and war i found wear your heart on your sleve comes for men at war stiching their female lover names into their uniform and historically knights use to wear their ladys colours on their sleves.

Asessment Two

(Inital images refrence video a few posts down FLAT PACKED LOVE)

•I am going to start by discussing my initial experimental piece after the last assessment;

•The piece relates to today’s society and the idea of our flat packed disposable world (Ikea)

•I wanted to explore the 2D and 3D aspects of the work – 2D heart in photographs 3D in video

 

Flat emotionless heart is given more meaning by adding personal tags

This next image is of the video projected ontop of a large scale tag, i am fasinated by the relationship of the 2D and 3D notion of the item.

-From doing this experiment concentrating on the 2D and 3D relationship of the work  I then started to consider my textiles work as a 3D.

-This piece is 2D- I have just used the stitch as a way of drawing on the fabric.

-I think it is conceptual resolved but there is something missing...

 

Charlotte Moorman

I saw this artist when visiting the Nam June Paik exhibition. The video is out there, fun, and intermate in an abstract way. 

American Beauty Dream Bath Clip

Considering layout, formation, and movement!

American Beauty Dream Clip

Inspiring for performance workshop.

Fantasy World in a Fake Real World.