The Project Brief for Semester 2 was to produce one piece of work, incorporating each of the chosen study subjects.
Life drawing and painting inevitably formed a basis for the work and, following the death of my Mother, I chose to portray woman’s life as a trilogy entitled: “ WOMAN – Mind, Body and Soul.” Based upon a construction format, and taking individual pieces from my work as a collection to portray a conceptual view.
Personal experience of a partner’s breast cancer gave me further incentive to comment on ageing and illness and the Trilogy would also include illustrations of beauty, ugliness, money, greed and death.
The piece was completed by a wooden skeletal sculpture, which represented death and re-birth, as a tribute to my Mother.
The construction is of 3 steel cages on a platform, which can be seen as the symbolic imprisonment experienced by many women, during 3 stages of their lives.
Although represented from a male point of view, the piece was developed from my own life experience and is intended to conceptually portray a provoking and sympathetic view.
The work was inspired by one of my earlier sketches of a concept of MAN,s symbolic imprisonment, as shown below:
