I then began to think more what really made me, and I came to the conclusion of my hair. It has always been something that I have felt ruled my life. I hated how fuzzy and curly it was and dark. However I used it as a mask to hind behind. All I ever wanted to have was straight long hair, as this was my ideal Barbie self to me. I also had a massive issue about the other hair on my body such as my top lip, my arms and leg hair etc, I hated it! And so did everyone else apparently I got laughed at and asked many of times by the other children in my class “ eww why are you so hairy and why do you have a beard and hairy arms. As I got older I hide behind my long dark hair even more (now it was more tamed and no curly and frizzy).
So I began to use my hair extension hair I thought it was odd how I had long hair cut it off then put fake hair in to make it long again, and how unrealistic it was and is. Hair is something that represents woman to me as I feel it is big thing for most women they have bad hair days or even the odd top lip hair I am sure. Other artists have used hair in their art work such as Judith Fegerl from Austria, she uses it in her installation piece Tension object
I began to collect cutting from my hair when I recently went to the hair dressers also I cut up some of my hair extension hair, I pinned it to a canvas to show my collection of hair and also seeing the difference between what hair was real and what hair was fake, it is hard to tell the difference.
