This is something i done after looking at the artist Marina abramovic....at this point i was still thinking about skin and marking. reason for the rope...but i realised it was more about the facial expressions now after doing this, it was a feeling of frustration i felt at this point or wanted to convey...pullng the ropes but never seeming to get anywhere. in it you can only see my gritted teeth, not the entire face...maybe i should try just showing the face but not the action for example holding something heavy or being shown something that you react to in some way, i dont know! im just thinking out loud! i only put one up because i feel it was an in between stage to get at something...and i think this one best showed what i was trying to get at.

i havent wrote anything on this for nearly a week...i have came close many times but could never get my brain to think enough to form somesort of coherent sentence. But here i am now.

For the first half of this week i had been stuttering through my work...I had looked at many artists but was unsure of what to do next. One of the artists i had looked at was marina abramovic...the link is to a page with a preview of her performance "art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful"...which the still below is from. In the performance she is aggressively brushing her hair with a comb and a brush, continuely saying "art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful". On the link it explains what the piece is about - "it is not about physical pain, but rather about the mental state that can be reached by way of pain." Watching this it is her facial expressions that interest me, going from almost staring into space to the brow creasing when pain is felt.

my grotesque yet

my most recent attempt at this and apparently, it seems, my most horrible, the skin really looks so distorted with the bulges of skin.






after tape off. looks really marked, even scar like..not gonna be able to write more on here until probably sunday....there is some stuff i want to talk about in relation to the work i have been doing and identity and some other stuff but for the moment i do not have time, i just wanted to get this work up as it was the most important at the moment.

another taping..

Second try at taping...its strange how many people find it disgusting just because the way the skin looks....its only been taped and pulled in places...its strange how people respond so badly to it?





love this gouge out look, mad!


skin once the tape has been taken off...looks quite severe.

i do have more photos....just too many to put on here. i will put them on flickr as soon as i can.

Selotape me!

Image from my first taping....going to try some more.

more! more!

Also found a book called "future face" image, identity, innovation. It is a collective of many artist with work involving the face. Really liked the Douglas Gordon piece featured -monster....using selotape to distort the face. I seem to be intersted in the skin again, embossing and such...would really like to use selotape to distort skin, i want to do something that is still about the skin but not embossing words...i still really like that though.



monster I


Here is another piece by Douglas which envolves words and his arm....thought i would put this in since i was embossing words on my arm....


never, never (black negative, mirrored) 2000

looking for artists...

Went looking for some books the other day on identity...found a few artists, one being this - richard renaldi - he went across america photographing just ordindary people, thought it might be interesting....



christine, fresno, california, 2003


there is more stuff on his website if you wish to have a look

richard renaldi