My current painting is of Rocket a character from Sucker Punch; a film about a girl institutionalised by her stepfather. As a coping mechanism she dreams up alternate realities for herself and imagines a plan to escape the mental facility. Although the main character of the Film is Babydoll, Rocket plays a key part in the group planning to escape. She is the first one to empathise with Babydoll at first instructing her on how to survive and later in sharing their regrets with one- another. She is the first to get involved with the escape plan and sacrifices her life for the good of the group. This shot focuses on a poignant moment between herself and her sister Sweet Pea. The two sisters disagree on whether to carry on with the escape plan after their plan has been foiled; Rocket says “I’m finishing this. We are all finishing this”.
I am beginning to consider the display of my paintings and how they may need to be viewed from multiple perspectives. I have observed that my faces (I am not sure that they can be called portraits as many are so closely cropped) all look off to one side and none head on at the viewer. I had planned to display the paintings above and below one another, however due to the direction of the subject’s glance this might be emphasised by hanging them in one continuous horizontal line.
