Thinking about the repetitiveness of my daily routine and other items to collect. I have began to collect my used cotton wool balls which I use after cleansing my face.
With the cotton wall balls I am beginning to collect, I decided that I wanted to do something with them such as attaching them together, to become a piece as a whole. I decided on stitching them together with gaps as I didn’t want it just to look like one massive piece of cotton wool. I wanted the viewer to be able to see each individual ball showing a story of that morning or evening. This reminded me of Alexandra Bircken’s work again with her use of stitching the same material together representing different parts and is something my work keeps leaning towards.
Perhaps these cotton wool balls are abject enough to work just on their own. Perhaps they don’t necessarily need to be attached together. Or maybe they do just on a larger scale? I need to play around with the arrangement of these I think, as I feel they could work well due to the remains of the skin like the wipes being left on them. There is something really quite interesting about them. I just need to find the best way of displaying themto really give the abject feeling to the viewer that I want to give. Especially if I were to use them in my degree show. The arrangement and display would be a very important part.
