have been making a variety of of dolls – have also started painting/drawing with just the cut outs of eyes/mouths etc – most of the ones I have been working on are stills from films – usually a moment of fear/horror (Hitchcock). I am finding these really useful and allow me to think more of […]
I have been constructing the base for crazy golf with the idea to hang grater from the ceiling to hover over the base. The base is of wood and going to be painted bright colours like real crazy golf. It has a funnel attached so that the audience can play the game. I am toying […]
interesting how the selfie culture exploded – people staging and retouching images of self to be beautiful and perfect face swaps – loads of people are doing it yet rarel publicise the images – are they scared what people will think they look like (even though it isn’t really them)? not being brave to destroy […]
Fears of being boring zips heights dying living loss ridiculed whispering Been looking into objects more and thinking how some of the ideas that I want to visualise have a playful toy/like feel to them. I found the following toys from Japan which have quite strange formations, colours and features mixed up with some human […]
have been in workshop making molds and wax casts of dolls arms created a ball of arms – reminds me of a jack from a childhood game – would like to roll but is very fragile interested in mixing up materials to use metal with the wax to make playful objects enjoy the art of […]
Zips hang grater from ceiling build wendy house – metal rods for construct support – cover in cardboard – paint comically and record sounds, whispering, laughing, play inside, one seat paint body close up, squeezing, pinching develop crashing – practice hitting with force against different materials to see effects face swaps onto dolls and with […]
Object Reader – book Haim Steinbach Trash Humpers Kasper Hauser I questionned if it’s a problem for my work to be too literal – is it? Perhaps the faces of the politicians on grater is too much – should try to reduce them – or perhaps not! play with the object – mouse trap, on […]
Oscar Kokoshcka March 1885 – February 1980 was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright. In 1928 he commissioned a doll maker to recreate his muse/love into a lifesize doll. He insisted on details and went to great lengths to the specifications of her curves and feel and the texture of her skin. The doll […]