I tried to print my images on the computer but no such luck, quality not the best so I am just putting them on the blog so I can keep the integrity of the image in tact.

As my project progressed I was taking photographs, I started by looking at the remnants of what is left behind when one dies, I then started to look at the vulnerability of the body,  the vulnerability of a young girl, I wanted to manipulate the lighting as I focused the shots and  contrast light and dark, and try and incorporate  shadows. 

I wanted to take the female out of the domestic roles that defined women in the past and redefine those roles through sculptural pieces.  In doing so I took traditional domestic materials   such as wool, lace, etc. and contrasted them with Industrial materials such as the roofing felt which I used. In order to create a feminine feeling to the sculpture I pleated and folded the felt and manipulated it until its form was transformed. I think I succeeded in creating an elegant sculpture with feminine qualities. the sculpture itself is in contrast with its base which is predominantly of white lace.

Moving away from the physicality of the human body, I wanted to depict the intangible essence of whats left behind, what was, before, I took some shots in a loft space in the out building attached to my home place. My Dad slept in this place as a child, this place is now unused, covered in cobwebs and dust, but a strong feeling of humanity hovers there. This is what I tried to capture in the photographs, my Dad was an athlete, and his shoes while discarded give a strong indication of him, the blackness behind the shoe, the newspaper clippings that he hung on the wall, where faces look out from behind cobwebs and dust from 1957.

Sculptural Experiments