crit II

After today i think I need to focus on presentation to fully resolve my works. Some feedback i got was positive about the video works, but that the one with me cleansing my face was more interesting than the one with me putting on makeup. hmmm. I think i will start again with reactions to that first video, i never really thought about the implications and meanings this gave to the work that I didn't really want.

This video feels very voyeuristic, letting the viewer in on a private moment, revealing through washing the face a routine mundane activity that is very carefully considered by the subject.

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SO- more video works tonight, and now that timothus jackapuss is free he can be my camera man for some sort of performative experimentation yusss. :) film video pieces tonight and edit tomorrow. In the meantime collect more drawings for the other other blog, #11.

An idea i had was to get a big mirror and a piece of glass. Display the hairball on top of the glass on top of the mirror (or hovering above it) so that you can see underneath it. Playing with reflections and that vibrating mirror is something i need to get on to as well. so much work to dooooooo.dle.

installation at school + critty rarunks

Responses from people seeing my work were good, quite what I expected. SOme words..
messy
gross
loose
tension
fluid
fur ball
linear
one dimensional
delicate Vs icky
Transparent
translucent
It was much different displayed on a mirror in a girl's toilet. It also had feminist undertones, with the sexual way in which the figure is posed. I wanted the figure to look beautiful and natural. The pose isn't explicitly sexual but i can see that by using my own hair, womens' hair and a pose like this the work cant help but give the impression its something feminist. damn.

The most interesting thing I took from the critique was when somebody said they thought of the hair differently when they knew it was mine. Associating it with a person, me claiming ownership over it gave it more familiarity i think. It was a deliberate collection of hair rather than an accidental find in a plughole. I am really interested in Brooke's work and the bird feathers she has tacked to the wall, she seems to have come from a very similar background to me and has taken a different approach, i really look forward to seeing more of her work. The girl who is from korea is doing interesting stuff aswell, i think it appealed to me at first because it uses the female form which is a feature in my work at present.

When i removed the hair from the miror it left an impression on the glass, very faint whitish lines of soapy dirt from the hair product. This was nice and subtle, you can still see it a week later it just looks like someone has had soapy hands on the mirror but if you look closer you can see the hair impressions.

Mirrors are a very feminine symbol, the mirror on my bus the other morning was vibrating insanely and i took a small clip of it. It distorted my face and looked unreal, then as soon as the bus started moving again it went back to normal..