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well, the mouthpiece I was working on (painstakingly) didn’t work out. At all. And that is okay. I think the components that make up the piece can be turned into stick pins or a brooch, so not all is lost. While weaving single strands of hair day in and day out did give me some meditative time to think, I did manage to move along in another direction.
Here are a short series of images I shot, which stem from my interest in discards of the body, process, and the notion of “wearing an experience”. I also like the idea of their being a residual there after this process is enacted.
In my crit, the notion of the work being too linear and didactic was brought up…which it is. I am not sure that I have a problem with that necessarily, as I think that it highlights or emphasizes the gesture/process more (but perhaps this is too closed or too straightforward—which can be a way to shoot, so I’m torn). I had toyed with the idea of taking the “spitting” image out so it is a triptych instead, but, as an idea I do like them. Perhaps they do need to be more open, less of me showing you something? More open to one’s imagination?
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