So now it's time to go back to my own work! I've decided I'm finished or bascially finished with the nakedness stuff. In some ways I think thats was more just something I had to so to prove to myself that I could, than something that was actually goingt o produce good work for me. Im still interested in issues of identity and perception though. I really dont know what I want to make or do. recently I've been looking at the work of Gillian Wearing and I really like it! Also I'm taking a seminar called Mirror of Enigmas that is really amazing, and it deals with issues of identity and representation.

Old Sketch Books

I was looking through my old sketch books today and found this. It's the first page for the first project we did when we got into sculpture. It was a self-portrait project and I just find it really interesting that the next word I wrote down was appearance. I wonder would other people have put down something similar?! More interesting to me is that the arrow from that says "how important?". The finished piece was a sound piece and it has actually been in my thoughts a lot recently in relation to my current project second skin. The aim of that piece was to give the audience an impression of me as a person, without them ever seeing me, or being able to recognise me physically. I'm not sure exactly what the relations are between the old sound piece and my work now. I think in ways I am doing the opposite now. I am working directly from my physical appearance, but not giving a direct view of it. Also I am exploring the connections and seperations between my physical self and my Self. Finally I'm interested in Identity as an idea, a theory, more so than as a reality.

Im working on...

Since starting college again Ive started making masks of my own face. Im not quite sure where Im going with it but Im very interested in the idea of 'my skin', and the relationship I have with 'my skin'. This piece, by Marc Quinn, kind of epitommises what Im trying to explain...but hopefully Ill come up with something completely different!!!

Im also intereted in wallpaper or making wallpaper for some reason and came across this... I really like it!!! The artists name is Ariana Page Russell!

identity

identity....mine?