Evaluation :)

According to these three weeks project, finally, I finished my work several days before, while I decided to take a film so that there are still some work for me.

I have to say that this project pushed me hard to do something that I have never done before. I tried various ways to make textiles in this project. I wanted to use human’s body and organ as a reference to make some textiles which are seems like the similar texture but not the same when people check the details, then I did some experiments. For example, I used acrylic to dye some different kinds of fabric and paper, or I blended paper in piece then changed them into new texture. After all these works, I can not deny that this project always push me to try something new, to try something I have never thought that I can do before. During these period, there were also some problem I have met. For example,at the ‘Here’ project of this course, I did not have any inspiration while the tutor helped me a lot. She encouraged me to make some random thing, she said ‘we are always in the box, but those random things could take us to find out something out of the box’. I can still feel like she is remaining me to create something new all the time, whatever I do, wherever I am.

I did a lots of research from several artists and their artworks. Such as Reme Magritte’s works ‘lovers (Les Amants)’ , the cloth is covering lovers’ face as the main elements of the men and women kissing, yarn might be able to cover the facial features, but it can not covered the strong emotion. Because of the deliberate veil covering, the abstract love was highlighted instead. The outfit and the main shape of the cloth which were covered on lovers was inspired me, so I used plaster and fabric to cover on people’s head that symbolized the blind love, and imitate the shape of lovers head in Magritte’s paint.

Also, I was inspired by ‘Works with Ulay’ from Marina Abramović, which is one of my favorite female artist and actress. The atmosphere in her performance is really attractive, so that I was addicted in the setting of her work. In the project ‘Works with Ulay’, she mainly focus on the relationship between people. In my opinion, this collection also about the connection between lovers, because  Marina and Ulay were lovers during that term, these performance not only about the mutual understanding between people, but also present some disadvantage of such kind of close relationship. For example, in one of her work, Ulay and she kissed and breathed the air from each other, whereas they got coma after a while, because their lung were filled with the carbon dioxide. This work explored the destroyed ability of relationship. Then I found that there some similarities between Marina Abramović and Reme Magritte’s work, so I tried to combine them together to make the final look of my work and take a vedio of my performance.

Actually, I pretty like the outcomes when I finished it, but there are still some space to make improvement. Firstly, when I made textiles, the raw materials that I chose were limited, I intended to try some other materials in the future, instead of cloth. Secondly, the research that I have done was not enough, I wanted to so more research from other field like literature or history, not only the artworks.