Compact Spaces
Exploring the work of Eve Dent and Willie Dorner, I explored the places in the house where we don’t normally place out bodies. My two favourite places were the bathroom and living room cupboards. One was compact and another was ignored due to the boiler being its main purpose. I wanted to mould and force my body into the spaces as much as possible to create a relationship within them.
With these images, I am going to experiment with chopping them up and replacing them into these spaces so it is as if I am embedded within the spaces. I have practiced with cropping and distorting one of the images. I may have to re take the images to present more skin to show there is a body there.
This distraught image was influenced by Pablo Picasso work. He distraught’s portraits and painting by splitting the images up into blocks. The most famous painting of his where this is exampled is ‘Seated Nude’ (1909-10).
Distinguishing the image, hopefully will make the audience see the surreal image of my body in the space.
“The reproduction of a painting or object, however perfect, is always, definitively, its betrayal. And that betrayal is the much greater when it invovles not objects or paintings but the whole space” ((Buren, D. 1973, Five Texts, London: John Weber Gallery and John Wendle Gallery p19)) .
I came across another artist work which fitted my photo collage creation. Sir Eduardo Paolozzi sculpture gave me the inspiration to place my cut up image back into the place, however to mould the image so it created a 3D image as it seemed to be embedded into the wall.
However, when trying this, as the image was so dark, it was difficult to see the image when it was placed back into the site it was taken.
Continuing this idea, I shall retake the images, however showing more flesh, so the audience can see on the images that it is a human body in that space.
With this inside the space it was originally taken, I may challenge the audience to find me and to ‘join me’ within the space. This will also link with my work with the CCTV as I will be watching if they take up the challenge and having audience participation with my experience. ((Kaye, Nick 2000, Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation. Routledge))