Small start on photography.

So I had a tutorial and showed my tutors the trapped paintings. they suggested that instead of displaying paintings behind the plastic ..i should take photos through the plastic. Both of me and of what I'm seeing thats causing the panic attack.

I like the way the photos turned out, mostly because my sister who suffers from panic attacks always says everything gets blurry and distorted when she has them. it also looks kind of watery which is like the cold sweats

Next will be to take photos from the other side, or maybe attempt to paint the photos I've taken.

Trapped paintings.

It's been...a while since my last blog post, so i'll try to recap over everything i've done since.

I really wanted to try out casting so I made a clear cast of chicken wire.
the chicken wire is meant to look like a fence which is kind of a symbol of being trapped/ restricted (claustrophobia). The reason it's made of clear plastic is that claustrophobia is all in the mind.
so the fence is kind of imaginary. I also did the same with a wooden crate.
So i wanted to display paintings behind these casts...for these painting a tried to incorporate some of the main features of claustrophobia.

With the first painting I tried to show the symptoms of :

Going insane - the clown like makeup

Cold sweats - the use of cool colours like blue and purple.

Then for the second the symptoms:

Feelings of suffocation - Hands over mouth and hazy like apperance

Nausea - Green colour.