Hammer time...

Packing final pieces for the degree show...covered in paint, and attempting to remove a massive nail with a shit hammer. Enjoy...

March 2012 - Degree Show Prep...

Oh look! It's Life-Size Laura! (Crappy print out for size referencing.)

"I love my murderer"

'You teach me now how cruel you've been—cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you—they'll damn you. You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?'

'Let me alone. Let me alone,' sobbed Catherine. 'If I’ve done wrong, I'm dying for it. It is enough! You left me too: but I won't upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!'

'It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?'

This Is What I Am For.

This Is What I Am For is a series of small photographs of women holding a blown up ultrasound scan. At the moment it is still very much in the planning, trial and error stage, but some of the pictures I'm using are here. The final ones will be in a small book with captions under them. The captions are thoughts about child-bearing and what it means to be a woman. Here are some examples...

I can combine him and myself.

This is what I am for.

I can support life.

Projections

So the idea behind these was to somehow convey the idea that a woman's body is extraordinary as it has the ability to bear children. These are just the basic first few projection shots, I drew a scan image (taken from my neighbour's first baby scan three years ago) and projected the drawing onto both my stomach and a friend's. These are the results. I'd like to see where I can go with this next semester. 

Ante-natal prints

So, after 2 months of fannying about with prints, here are a couple of framed final-for-now pieces. Christmas assessments are in two weeks, so I'm just figuring out a way to display them all. Also my collection of printed ante-natal legs, which I think will be displayed hanging from individual red threads. Hopefully things will start to come together after Christmas and this damn dissertation has been handed in and is out of my life FOREVER. 

'I'm a heartless man at worst, babe, and a helpless one at best.'