This started as a college project but I wanted to continue it and merge it with things I've been interested in recently, including mapping.
These are just rough results of thought processes. Hopefully I'll have time to develop them to a better thought through and polished work. I was interested in the simplistic symbols and the way that they kind of relate to my simplistic understanding of a time that collates a mass amount of history, cultures and values.
- Placing yourself in history -
The images above are collages I did on photoshop made up of photos of my tights. Bit strange, but I found that when stretched around my leg the fabric created these lines similar to a topographical map. They're very rough but it was more to experiment with what effects I could create. The blue one has been printed and scratched into.
It made me think of artists I've been looking at recently that try to place themselves within history as well as process their heritage and comment on the way we engage and relate to it. The power and wealth of the country I live in (though still decreasing) is a remnant of that time of violent colonialism and as a result of chance of birthplace it is part of my heritage. Using the visible contours of my body might be an interesting way of exploring that idea, or perhaps other ideas to do with place and identity.
It made me think of artists I've been looking at recently that try to place themselves within history as well as process their heritage and comment on the way we engage and relate to it. The power and wealth of the country I live in (though still decreasing) is a remnant of that time of violent colonialism and as a result of chance of birthplace it is part of my heritage. Using the visible contours of my body might be an interesting way of exploring that idea, or perhaps other ideas to do with place and identity.
These are just rough results of thought processes. Hopefully I'll have time to develop them to a better thought through and polished work. I was interested in the simplistic symbols and the way that they kind of relate to my simplistic understanding of a time that collates a mass amount of history, cultures and values.
Colonial symbol and typographical map.
This drawing on fabric is part of the original project. A drawn collage of different colonial symbols.
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