Items of the home IIII
(Cigs, Cigs and more Cigs)
2017
paint, filler, ink
This experiment started in my book when i started to explore the items in the home, jotting and scribing down any item that had a significant relevance to me in my past. These items started of basic like remembering the high stools that sat at the breakfast bar in the old house, or the lamp I used to stare at constantly because of its cheesy decorative surface before turning into the memories of the multiple cigaret butts that sat sprinkled in the grass beneath my swing. I found it important to express the cigarette as an item of the home as i remember drawing repeated images of 'smicked' out males and females with cigarettes hanging out of there mouths and fingers as a child (which i find quite humorous).
Continuing with the context ‘Items of the home’ the large plastic sheet allowed me to experiment freely with a range of finger painting and large expressive brush strokes continuing my practice in a pictorial plane while also allowing me to enter the ‘real space’ as the 2D sheet becomes a layer of its own walls.
My intentions for using this medium was so the public could observe me from behind the sheet as it becomes more cluttered with the iconic items of the dysfunctional home to represent how the child can become over shadowed in this environment, Concluding almost as a performance piece for the audience that only exists in that time.
Cigs, Cigs and More Cigs
2017
Acrylic paint, plastic sheet 2m X 0.5m
Working with acrylic and plastic, i began to realise that the two materials would begin to reject each other. Inspired by George shaws’ non places i propose to experiment with film, hanging the 2m high sheets of plastic in different estate/ run down areas and documenting a range of weather conditions that would hopefully result in the pieces becoming destroyed. This should represent how memory is structured as a fragmented archive, while also allowing me to create a contrast of atmosphere that would become symbolic for how different experiences could affect someone.
Items of the Home III 2016
(Sketch book)
paint, filler, ink
Acrylic paint, plastic sheet,
(sketch book)
Acrylic paint, Plastic sheet
8.27 X 11.69 inches
Cigs, Cigs and more
cigs
2017
photography series of scanned images. Scanning the images created another form of documentation that allowed me to preserve the piece, while also creating an outcome that deliberately responds as a contrast between child’s play and horror.
