BELOW are, listed in a very random order, a selection of photos from an experiment i did today working with the theme of plastic surgery. i took inspiration from images of the drawings surgeons do onto the faces of the patients the outlines of where they will cut with a knife and manipulate. i used instead foam bullets and stuck these on with tape. i initially placed the tape under the foam so that these weren’t visible but moved it so that it popped over the top because there was something of a clinical precision about this blatancy which appealed to me and worked well with the concept; materialistically this worked well because of the make-shift material uses of foam, a mannequin (and now also tape). it’s a make-shift plastic surgery.
however, the effect of the tape what with its reflective translucent surface has a great effect when it’s photographically manipulated, particularly in the brown photographic manipulations near the bottom of the collections; there’s something so rustic, organic and old school clinical looking about this which makes it, for me, one of the more beautiful and successful manipulations.
i would like, next, to sketch some of these manipulations and paint, using many different mediums. it’d be interesting to see where that takes the piece.
i would also like to carry on then with perhaps sticking on more foam bullets, including onto the back, to see how this affects the piece.
claudiadunn 