Our privates

I've stitched the word meat into underwear to show the insecurities we have about our appearances due to the images and the words used by the media, eg: get the look, asif that's the way we must look to be pretty. The word meat came from my survey when I asked people to give me one word to describe their body, the word meat really shined out to me so I've went with that. I decided to stitch the word into underwear because underwear are fragile garments, their one of our most private things that the world doesn't see on a day to day basis so I thought this would add more success to the whole insecure notion. 

I carried out the same idea but on the under piece of a dress I have. This has the same concept really. This part of the dress is hidden, almost asif this is the private part of the dress. We don't strut around in this part of the dress alone.

The images are in black and white to look more eerie, isolated, depressed and overall sad really as the idea behind these pieces is to say that the sad reality is that so many of us feel insecure and down right sad about the way we look because we don't look like these models and celebrities in the media. However they don't even look like those photos, Photoshop can work wonders.

I don't think we should all be pushed to look a certain way though, we all have our own natural beauty and we should be happy with the way we were intended to look. The media will use language like "get the look" and so on asif what they say is the must way we should look.

It's outrageous.

The Media and our society

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We are all pieces of meat.



I created a survey to gather information of how individuals feel about the way they look, I received the world meat. I found this very interesting and I felt a connection with this word.

This is a large scale painting, it is 4 x 2 foot.

I have a male and a figure torso hanging like a piece of meat, like a cow's torso would be in a butchers or a slaughter house, we are no different, skin, blood, bones, organs...

We are all the same so why should it matter how we look on the outside? Why do we have all this pressure from the media to look like a skinny model? Pft, the models themselves don't even look like those images, Photoshop can do wonders.

Again, it's not only females who are effect, males can feel insecure on their looks too. I feel this is more aimed towards women when it's not. Both sexes feel insecurities and I feel this should be highlighted more.

The media and our society

As my current project is based on the idea that because of the images of models and celebrities that are shown through the media, we feel we need to look a certain way to be classed as "beautiful" and to then become accepted into society. I'm working on my final major piece for this which is the painting, "meat" and the minor for this idea is my drypoint print "trapped" but as a last minute thing I had this interesting idea. I questioned why do I have to make myself look presentable to go out? What's wrong with the natural state I wake up in? So currently I am taking an image of myself as soon a I wake up and another when I have done myself up to leave my house to compare the two. Do we do this because we want to look more like the images in the media? The idea of how were suppose to look... This is just a quick idea I wanted to have some fun with to throw into my sketchbook before the hand in

I really should blog a lot more, I have really, really been bad to this account lately. I'm not even sure if anyone actually reads my blogs or whatever but ey, what the heck. It's another way to get my Art work out there and even if one person is looking at my work, that would be cool. 

Here  is the first week of my images from my project;

It really annoys me that we have to spend time every morning, put some eyeliner and powder on, straighter our hair and brush it all down, pick out a nice outfit to wear so others don't look at us and think god, what a mess. If I didn't have to do this I could have an extra half hour of sleep every morning! Oh and that sounds more appealing to me. By far. 

WHY DO WE FEEL THE NEED TO IMPRESS EVERYONE?

Even myself, I have a boyfriend, I have the friends I need. I am happy yet still, I still feel the need to make myself look like this ideology of pretty. Do I subconsciously feel insecure because of the images in the media? 

Instillation

The graded unit has started... Oh it's getting tense. I really hope I do well through this... The themes are brilliant however.

For an intro project I was to create an instillation dedicated to my favourite artist, who of course is du du du! Drumroll please... Jenny Saville!!

Everything in my instillation has a conceptual meaning behind it but i'll let you think about that yourself rather than me sitting explaining everything.

Following the instillation, this was the initial research to the start of our graded unit. I've chosen to go with the theme of identity and I am going to look at gender identity. I am going to explore it physiologically, physically, politically and socially.

To begin with, I read that Saville takes close up images of herself after adding things to her figure so I have took my own approach to this and then painted from the images.

And here are my painted versions...

I'll try and update my blog as much as possible for anyone interested in my work :)

SOLD! Hammer slams...

Recently I've had a lot of requests to sell people my paintings, this is a huge compliment to me and I am very happy about this! Plus that means more money towards Fred Perry... eh what who said that??

These are the two which were posted off to their new homes this morning.

There really isn't a lot that's better than other people being interested in spending money on my art work to hang in their homes to look at every day. I mean after I do a piece I can barely look at it, i'm sick of seeing it so it's brilliant to have someone with a fresh pair of eyes look at it.

Doherty

Pete Doherty. Many have their opinions.

To me, Pete Doherty is my hero. I'm not a huge fangirl that will protect every bad thing said about him. He's got his bad aspects but as do me and you. As does the nicest person in the world. That can't be helped.

I, myself is very proud and happy to see Peter now clean, he seems to have a lot of more life within him and looks a lot more... Happy.

I do wish Peter all the happiness in the world as his music has brought to me.

This is a watercolour painting I done of my hero, Doherty.

The wildlife and me

I used to love drawing animals, it's all I ever wanted to draw. Infact animals are what I started off drawing when i was... as far back as I can remember put it that way.

Since school I haven't had much opportunity to draw animals as such as they tend not to fit any of my themes. Now it's that time of year, all my assessment work has been handed in and I have a little spare time I have decided to go back, after two years I have created some animal watercolour paintings which I really enjoyed doing.

I'm also happy with the way these guys have turned out! Note to self though, i'm gonna have to keep up with this painting and not let it slip again!

A painting a day keeps me sane...