These are the images in which I changed the layout of my face in. I changed the order of the picture and also a mirror copy effect to them. I done one of these in black and white and then I decided to play with the colour, these colours I would not normally use in my work however I do think they work well and are very pleasing to the eye.
They for me do not work as well as the black and white one as I feel personally they add my drama to the images. It makes you look at them in a different way, maybe in a more unpleasing way it makes you feel more emotional. Where the other images in colour I feel are much more cheerful and celebratory which is something I don’t really want to capture in these particular images.
I aslo played about and created some digital photo collages which I think work very well. The one that worked out best for me is the one in which I selected the parts of my face with makeup on and applied them over a photo of me without my makeup on. Also the image of my side profile in layers, I create these images using a basic crop and paste tool on a simple pc programme.
The other images I just create while playing around with different software and setting to see which one I liked the best. I think they work well and give the images a more of a cartoon effect to them, I think the one I think is most affective is the build-up piece using square and a copying effect and the image I used is the one of me facing myself as a reflection with and without makeup on. I used an overlap tool to create this effect on the image. The simple images work well also the ones that I have just changed the order of the photo so my chin is at the top and my eyes at the bottom of the picture.
This week I have been at my computer a lot working on editing my photos using different software to create different images using the images I already have of my face. I want to try and take a new approach to these images, I am at the moment a bit doubtful about them. I am not sure that they are putting across the message that I want to. I wanted to create natural photographs and these are thee complete opposite of that. However It does put an interesting twist on the images as I have been dysmorphing the images of my face using sewing and pleating. This is what I would call the “modern mother”. As in my work I use sewing to reference the ‘mother’ (the insignificant other) from theories from Freud, I choice to use sewing as this is a skill that only women done in the past and is documented throughout history also it is something you link with the mother, it defiantly reminds me of my own mother as she was a seamstress. So these images are a more modern mother, the office mother or the hard working mother in line with these technical ‘men’. So for that reason I think they work from that point of view.
I recently watched a programme called Beauty and the beast: Ugly face of prejudice and this programme really made me feel guilty for ever thinking twice or complaining about my looks. It puts two very different people together and they face the world of prejudices with each other’s and also see how one another, has to face the reaction of the public every day in different ways and dealing with reaction off the public on how they look. The episode I watched was explained as…
Beauty obsessed hairdresser Corinne Harrison meets teacher Simon Moore. Corinne spends up to £3000 a month on beauty treatments, has had two boob jobs and is considering a third, and liposuction.
Simon has Treacher Collins Syndrome, a condition which means his skull and jaw did not form properly in the womb, leaving him profoundly deaf.
Corinne tries to persuade Simon that her beauty regime is normal and natural. He learns why Corinne hates her nose and hair.
Then it’s time for Corinne to see what it’s like to live with a facial disfigurement.
Their meeting concludes with a trip to Jamaica, where Simon hopes Corinne will learn to love her Jamaican heritage and ditch her plans for more surgery.
I have added an episode I watched, in this one a girl and a guy who were paired together compare how they feel about their own personal looks.
I have been researching more this week and really looking at why I create this work. I think mostly I am very effected by what I see around me. I also watch a lot of documentaries in my spare time.
I am most interested in ones that discuss the issues on body deformities and women who have plastic surgery to ‘correct’ there bodies. I find this whole concept very fascinating, it is something as a young woman I have thought about. I like this idea of waking up and being corrected (whatever that may mean?) on the other hand it also makes me very angry when I hear people pleading poverty that their surgery have gone wrong and that they have been left botched up. I mean as a young woman we all like the thought of having the bits we don’t like about our self removed, on the other hand it is a totally different thing to actually go through this silly process. Also I want to know for what reason? Is it to boost self-confidence? Is it so others find you more attractive? Or is it just self-pity? I also find it very strange that people go through this process when other poor people have to live with body dysmorphia and they cannot ‘correct’ how they look. Just because you look a certain way does this make you a different kind of human? And does it really make them look any better? Personally I think this people look really scary and unlife like, this is not reality and not real life! It’s just bazar!
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