this is the final piece i made for my project i was happy with the outcome, it was larger than others i had done but i wanted to be this way. i wanted this distorted look about it and that it wasnt perfect in look, i am not so why should it be.

trying out areas

trying out different markings on leg, feet, arm, hand side of torso. i think i use the torso arm and leg having them all or the torso and leg joined

position

i have decided as my final piece to make a large collection of photos as i have been playing about with. i am working on the areas of the bodyto see which will be used.
here was figuring out where markings would be. i had began thinkin on the back but that proved too hard so i decided the side. i was trying to get a crease in the skin at the side aswell as i thought this would distort the figure in the photos

looking at skin

I decided i wanted to take the marks off my skin and at the same time collect the markins of the skin. It was a good way to look at different movements of the body and capturing them in something solid, as for my final piece i will need to look at the placement of different parts of the body.

hand marks

In these photos i was trying different markings on the the hand...here i rolled ink along the skin on a pen. I like the tire like markings

ink markings

foot

I tried a larger photo collage of my foot with the lines along the top, i used black and white with a touch of colour at the heel

some playing around

just playing around with some photos. /\ above - using both colour and black and white. like the variation.

Been looking at the way i lay out photos,found it an interesting way to build up images. It gives a fractured look to the body, it shows the confusion and frustration that can be felt when dealing with ones appearance.




I started marking myself, looking back to the measuring i thought of a ruler.puting it straight onto the skin it feels more personal. it makes me feel of the burden we make ourselves carry, having to measure up to targets sometimes out of reach we give ourselves.



I love the creases in the skin i find it makes the photographs more interesting and shows the way skin can change and react to movement.



This is an attempt at grouping photographs together i think it went well

The Boyle Family

skin series cytogram
right hand study

Looked at some Boyle family skin series, focusing on the skin very closely. i love the markings of the skin up close

showing my lines

The Word Scrutiny kept running round my head so i started tracing the lines on my hand. Im starting to use text, symbols, drawing on the skin. If feels its more personal written straight onto the skin.

diameter

Tried writing some symbols on the skin. this one is the sign for diameter. i think i like using lines better its works well with the large photo pieces

Joseph McKenzie - Witness to mortality

Remember man that thou art dust...and unto you shall return!Ash Wednesday. 1990

Looked at this guy - Joseph McKenzie. Liked the use of a symbol on the skin, thought it was an interesting idea.

measuring to my hearts content

These are more photos of measuring parts of my body, using postit's to write down the measurements. I liked this way of leaving the information on the body, im going to try and write the text onto the skin . The one photo i seem to be drawn to is the one just of the postit on its own. i seem to be drawn to text so much, i worry im using it too much.

It has been described i am scrutinising skin, i like this description.







measuring photos

measure to your hearts content

I became interesed in measuring after finding an old black and white photograph in a book of a man with a measuring tape against his head, the portrait was done by Alphonse Bertillion in 1890, for what reason unknown . But i liked that exactness and again using the body, so i began measuring my own body. There is somthing in the back of my mind that makes me think of medicine when i look at these, i am drawn to the one of my hand, maybe because of the small area with the large measuring tape along it making it even smaller, dainty almost. These are some of the first photos i had taken, using the same idea as the photograph i had seen.

Alphonse Bertillon

circa 1890

This is a photograph by Alphonse Bertillon. He was a policeman in France who introduced the the identification of criminals based on physical measurements, head body markings, ie. scars, tatoos, personal characteristics. This is called anthropometry.

It was later replaced by finger printing.

I found this photograph interesting. I liked the exactness of measuring all of the body, this clinical and pratical way of dealing with the human form.

Faces

Havent posted in a while so im gonna do catch up.

These photos were taken after thinking about facial expressions. I was just trying something out here, maybe it was more about how i felt at this time, my moods swinging from fine to anger and frustration. I dont know if this will go anywhere, there is other things im looking at but it could be something to possibly think about as an exercise for me to do.