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.