Bleeding at the edges

We got given a new brief this week called bleeding at the edges. It was quite an interesting brief in that we had to make expansions and adaptions to our bodies. I did this in a more unique way because I made body cages. Although they don’t necessarily expand the body they definitely adapt to it and they also cause the body to adapt to them as they restrict the freedom of movement in the body.

I am really happy with these pieces and I think that it was a good start on exploring the body in my work. my favourite one would have to be the ear piece because of the prettiness of it and because of the meaning of trapped sound and blocked hearing behind it. I think the worst one is probably the breast cage, it doesn’t look very good, but are cages meant to look good in the first place?

I was influenced by Frida Kahlo and her body corsets and also by paddy Hartley face corsets. They both have similar ideas where they contort the body, although my work doesn’t do this I can still see some similarities.