I liked these photgraphs as they were but I felt that they had not tackled the issues I had focused my dissertation on, the use of animal materials within contemporary art. Also the photographs were just of a fox hunt, they didnt mean anything, until i thought about the idea of the red. symbolic of blood, I linked that with animal materials, and thought i could use blood as a paint within the pieces. animal blood however , does stain, but does not give an eye catching effect, also on a gloss photographs the blood does not take to them.
This brought me back to my dissertation.. do animal materials have to be used to make the point ? or is the idea alone enough? i deceided to use red paint as my blood instead. I htought if i gained the right tone of red to make it believeable that it was blood, perhaps i could say it is real blood, would this make it shock art , even if actually it isnt?
