Catherine McCaw-Aldworth

Following on from my last post, as promised here is a complete run through of my final piece for my first unit of rotations on my foundation art and design course. As mentioned in previous posts my project was all about mental health, especially anxiety and depression and looking at how this distorts and deforms peoples health.  My final piece was developed from the scanography, which I loved creating and I ended up making a mixed media collage. I captured all the progress and stages on my camera, it took me around a week to ten days to create this piece and I am extremely happy with the outcome.  So, to start creating the piece I selected my favourite scan, which was the one with caution tape around my mouth. I feel this represented my anxiety well, I have to be cautious of what I say because I don't want people to pity me and/or think I'm crazy. There's always an underlying fear that when I open my mouth a hole will open beneath my feet and I will be sucked in wi...

Following from my last post on scanography I recently finished my project on the human form. I further developed the scans into ink pieces, collages and prints and I am very happy with the amount of experimentation I did.  Below are the images of some of the pieces of experimentation I created.  On the ink pieces I placed rock salt on while it was still wet. The rock salt absorbs the pigment from the ink and creates an interesting effect and texture in the ink on the paper. I drew with black marker pen around some of the features to define it more, it didn't turn out the way I had hoped but it created an effect that reminds me of graffiti. I prefer the bright blue ink piece to the darker one as I like how the ink has run down the back and created unplanned patterns on the paper. I particularly like working with ink for this theme. I am focusing on mental health especially with anxiety and depression. Using ink and letting it flow without control makes a drowning sensa...