..it really is about time that we post about what we're showing, so we all have a better understanding of what this show will look like. Thank you, Francesca, for taking the lead! I'll go next....I'm Caroline from sculpture.
My piece is titled You Can Hide But You Can't Run, a product of a long study of the habits of women--mostly pertaining to vanity, but from a more anthropological and psychological angle. In the V&A, I referenced a sculpture of a flawless young girl, called The Age of Innocence by Alfred Drury. I then drew the connection to Edith Wharton's novel of the same title--one written after the sculpture was created, and one which is about women quite opposite to the girl in the V&A. That was my starting point, though there is almost no evidence of my inspiration in my final piece, as my process and many other pieces created along the way led me elsewhere.
The object itself is a life size woman, which is actually made of a polyurethane foam mannequin covered in tissues on which I've collected the makeup off of the faces of a few female students of CSM. I asked them to take off all of their makeup for me and trimmed them according to the natural shape of the colour, and assembled them sort of like a puzzle to the surface. She is buried into the wall, as if she is pulling herself out--the idea is that she is a direct product of her environment. In order to execute this in the Sackler Centre, I will most definitely need a false wall, as the base of my piece must be directly build and plastered onto a flat surface in order to be effective.
Voila! Your turn!
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