Projections

 For the past few years of using this blog I have only really posted images, as I like the viewer to take in their own interpretations of my work, however for the purposes of university I am going to start explaining parts of my practice. These images are based on projections created using acetate print outs of earlier images of textile pieces. These were projected onto card and then cut out into the shapes they created, which will then be hung, and possibly entwined using threads and ribbon.

Here is a  short rational about my work at this current stage:

Bringing together the idea of the female form in a consumerist society alongside mass production and mark making is key to my practice. My work is processed based; which focuses on the idea of how the object(s) was/were made rather than the idea of striving to finalize a particular concept or piece of work.

The idea of mark making/abstract pieces intrigued me as the viewer then has scope to place his or her ideas onto the work I have created. I aim to create work that looks feminine, in the hope that the viewer may recognise this and begin to come up with their own connotations and thought processes about the ideologies of feminism, and hopefully challenge some of their own views about what is going on in the media today.

My work is created in the most feminine way possible, that is, I avoid using phallic objects such as paintbrushes and pens. Instead I create using threads, print making techniques, and cuttings using ‘feminine’ tools such as scissors and pen knives (non-phallic objects with curvatures.) There is then the idea of mass production, so I tend to create multiple examples of one process to tie in this idea of consumerism and exploitation that is vibrant in modern western society.