I’ve been filming some experiments i’ve been doing with fake blood powder. This is a powder that looks invisible when blended into the skin but then “bleeds” when in contact with water.
It looks pretty impressive in real life but watching it played back didn’t have the same impact. I was going to do full body length frames but this makes it very difficult to clearly see the “bleeding”.
I shall be filming close ups instead! I often have a leaning towards close ups!
The whole thing will be played back in reverse so the blood goes back into my skin, therefore it is quite important that the viewer can actually see this happening.
I allways use fake blood “representations” so far. I don’t use real blood in my work. To me it is not necessary to use the real thing. People don’t drink blood at communion and yet they understand that what they are drinking represents the blood of Christ.
I use the representation of blood as a mechanism to show emotion, life and death, purity and disease, and also something more. I use the body directly to explore the psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects of the human. The blood is like a leaking of the things we keep hidden, the things we don’t say, wounds that have remained unhealed.
