I decided to collage the dolls house in eyes, I have had a fascination with eyes for years. My first year project looking at psychedelia used prints and paintings of eyes, as well as seeing many of the artists at that time had used illustrations of eyes as well, such as Rick Griffin and Robert Crumb.
I want to use eyes because of my feelings about image and how women inparticular are judged and scrutinised for what they look like. By using the eyes from the models and celebrities, who are the ones showing us what we should be wearing and how we should look, but at the same time are the ones who are judged the most by the media and the rest of the world.
It takes three steps to do the collaging, first of all I go through the magazines and cut out the eyes in chunks not as individual eyes. This leaves me with interesting cut outs that when laid over each other can make quite unique images themselves.
The second step is cutting out the eyeballs from the chunks I’ve taken from the magazines. This leaves what looks like mask like shapes that I can’t bring myself to through away as I feel they will come in useful for another piece of work. The third step is actually gluing the, into the house which is painstaking, time consuming and quite awkward. I have got a small amount done and hope that the end result is a bit more impressive than it is at the moment.
