I thought I would do a bit of a sum up of why I have chosen what i Have to be in my degree space:
‘Hairy Chair’:
‘Hairy Chair’ is one of my favourite pieces. This is due to it looking like a fairly normal chair (except my bad upholstering!) until you get up close and find there is in fact my hair loosely sewn all into the back of it. I am excited to see how people react at it at the degree show. I found it strange how people find the though of someone elses hair disgusting, but they will sit on public transport when you don’t know how many head have deposited hair there. I wanted the viewer to see it as a normal armchair, use it as a chair to view the projection and then stumble across the chair and be disgusted that they have Lent against it. I positioned it to view the projection, but only comfortably when lent back. This will hopefully encourage them to lean back onto my hair, without them realising. I hope they then notice afterwards there is hair rather than before they sit on it. Perhaps it is so subtle they won’t even notice what they have sat against… Jenine Shereos, Anne Wilson and Adrienne Antonson were massive influences for me to create this chair. They al had slightly different ways of working with hair. Either through cloth like me, or making them actually into little sculptures which I found fascinating. Their work was all so abject but so fascinating too.
‘The Removal of a Part of Me’ (Film and Dress) :
The projection of me removing my make-up kind of contradicts my whole idea of creating a space which doesn’t involve me. This video clearly is of me, showing me which I didn’t want. Why did I choose to use this? The reason I chose this to be in the degree show as although it does show me, it shows me in a way that most people haven’t seen me. No-one except Mikalea from our class had seen me before without my make-up on, so for me to put it online for my class to watch and even the Internet was a big step for me. This mask I use everyday this is who I feel I am, I don’t let many people see me without due to how uncomfortable I feel in public without it. For this reason I felt it was important to use. I was becoming more open with myself and my art. In a way I don’t want people to see it and to know that how I look, I don’t have perfect skin etc, what would they think? But in another way I wanted them to sense my uncomfortable feeling that I was removing my make-up but not very comfortable at having being filmed doing this. Especially as Mel who filmed me had never seen me without it on before. I feel from watching the piece you see how I start off not really bothered there is a camera there, but the more and more of the make-up that comes off the more you sense my uneasiness at having the camera there and trying to hide from the camera at times it seems. You also see that at the end I constantly am rubbing my face. Why did I do this? I only recently noticed this and thought about it when watching it on the projection. What was I doing? The only thing I can think is that it was an instinctive reaction to try and keep covering my face from the camera seeing my bare face. This piece isn’t abject but the dress which compliments it which was worn to remove my make-up on contains an abject feeling as this has the remains of my make-up on it. I placed them near to each other due to the relation of them linking together as one piece.
