Over the eight weeks studio practice, finally the final outcome been completed and set up. Seeing the picture above, I am quite pleased of what I achieved.
During this project, I have been tired several new skills and materials challenging myself to open my own life experiences to inspired the project and create a mount of physical art works.
I did body casting at the beginning which gave me the mode that I could take the form into different materials, such as, glass, ceramics and leather. I wanted to try glass making for a while and finally I have a go at this project. It's a exciting process, different colours and melt together to create a completely different piece. Also tried some new skills about glazing which is transferring fine detailed letters onto a 3D ceramic piece. That process actually took me a long time to practice and achieve the effect that I wanted. However, it shows pretty well by the end. Another new skill which I learned is sculpting leather. The outcome is great, especially after I added the red stitching. The only thing annoying me of this practice is the material's price is way to high to even offer another piece. If I have more money in my pocket I don't mind to create more piece of it.
Thus, after I tried all the skills and materials I planned to try, I did a big decision making. I choose to focus on the visual art create part, which is taking more self portrait. At the beginning I did a group of top less photographs and transfer them on fabrics by emulsion print, the result looks great, however, it's not enough. Also, I do feel when other people shooting me, the images couldn't speak what I want to tell. My emotions are not been delivered. Thus, I decided to shoot myself and in my house which is the most important scene in my everyday life. This time I am more than happy with the results. The body shame, the rage, and how I accept my body and myself by the end.
About the idea why I transfer the images onto clear acrylic?
Our life, experiences, emotions, memories, they never only on one page, they all been connect together, dragging us, pulling us. Thus, when all the images on the clear surface, we could see everything through from the behind pieces, more or less. It's kind of physically showing the struggles and growing of my emotions. However, the third image which is I am throwing the scale, is a bit dark, it doesn't effect the whole visual result, it could be better! That's something I need to improve for the future.
I think a lot of females have body shame, identity recognition issues, those things bothering me all the time. I do hope through my works that could show people, we are all struggling on this and we should accept we are as who we are!
Comments