#poppiewood

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Flesh mirror - close up photos of the flesh wound’s detailing.

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Final pieces.

I decided to present all of my final pieces of work from the start of the project because I did not know which one represented the strongest piece. I thought that it would be the fluke mirror and the casted face because to me, they were the hardest to work on and taught me a lot. Although during my crit Alan mentioned that the most eyecatching piece to him was the broken arm piece. He said that if it was alone it would represent something more than what it does being arranged in amongst the rest. The class feed back was the best that I have had yet. A lot of the class were effected by the real feel of my dead skin works and that really pleased me.

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Finishing touches of the final face.

Once i had completed the mirror i decided to go back to the face cast that i had created and add some final finishing touches.

I carved two small indents into the wrists of the cast before wedging some twisted branches into the holes and fixing them with pva glue. I wanted to tie the mirror with the sculpture so i added the twigs to them both. I also coated a layer of shellac over the top of the entire sculpture including the branches to ensure that the whole piece would dry, harden and then eventually crack.

I am very happy with the outcome of my final piece, the whole process has taught me a lot about revisiting old works and recreating methods of techniques and processes. I have really enjoyed working with latex and shellac, they realte together rather well.

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Further development....

I wanted the colours to pop more than they did, i felt as though they looked really flat against the textured surface so i added a layer of pva glue over the entire structure. This created a wet or slimy look on the texture of the skin. I also wanted to add some red tones to give the effect of old blood stains so i added a generous application of fake blood to the lips and dabbed around the mouth to give the same bleeding effect as the previous stains and encourage the loud colour to blend in with the surrounding colours. I also topped the lips with a coating of Shellac to encase the stains and stop the fake blood from peeling once dried. The shellac also splits the fake blood in areas which the blood has been applied weakly, i like the effect very much.

Note: I finally coloured in the mouth also as it was a major diversion, anyone that had saw my piece asked me about the discolouration within the mouth and they wondered what it meant. Now it is gone there is no diversions from the visual aspect to which i have added.

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I found a mixture of paint, washing powder and lord knows what else in the studios that a fellow student had left lying around. I liked the texture and thought I would put it to good use. I used a small stick to smash up the hard mixture into pieces of small rocks. I then used pva glue to stick it around the base of the dead weeds, I did this to cover up the indents made into the arm, also to create a more organic base for the dead weeds to have bloomed from.

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Social experiment.

I decided to creat 3 separate group chats on facebook; one with some family members, one with some college friends and the last one with childhood friends. Each message contained the same content yet received very different replies which was refreshing and very interesting to read….

My message wrote,

Hello, I am collecting some research for a college project and I was wondering if some of you creative minds could tell me what you believe your own shadow defines? Why is it there? What does it represent, in your own opinion. Would you feel lost without it? Does it make you safe or scared? Any and all suggestions would be highly appreciated.

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Here are some visual aspects from the Walt Disney production of Snow White.

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Another version of the tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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After much research into the Brother Grimm’s stories I found that the tale of Snow White and the seven dwarfs related to the Fritzl account the most.

Snow White has seven dwarfs whilst Fritzl forced his daughter to bore seven children.

One of the dwarfs is called Dopey and isnt included much within the story, Elisabeth had a son to Fritzl called Micheal who died as a new born.

Snow white was enchanted by the evil queen who tricked her into pricking her finger with a needle which contained a sleeping curse while Fritzl used an Ether soaked rag to put his daughter to sleep whilst he barricaded her into the dungeon. 

True loves kiss broke the sleeping spell for Snow White whilst the sickness of her ill daughter pushed Elisabeth into begging Fritzl to take her to the hospital where she was able to be released from the prison that her father had created.

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Another article this time there is a video included.

It mentions that Fritzl forced his daughter Elisabeth to have 7 children with him in his basement, whilst the mother lived upstairs unaware.

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Another article detailing the events of the Fritzl account.

Within this article it is mentioned that Joseph Fritzl used an Ether soaked rag to knock his daughter Elisabeth unconscious before barricading her inside the dungeon he had built within their basement.

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The Fritzl account.

I was inspired to chose the Fritzl account towards my project after a discussion to better my brief with Alan. He had mentioned that he and Colette had recently watched a documentary about the man. This inspired me to dig a little further and i found a selection of articles all detailing the events but in very different ways. I have included a selection to decipher the evidence required to related to one of the Brothers Grimm tales or to relate to a Folklore tale of some sorts.

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An online list of every Brothers Grimm tale written by the two brothers. Each with hyperlinks to open up the details about each story. I have copied this into my page to ease access when trying to figure out which stories to choose from.

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A list of the 40 best Brothers Grimm stories, these are the ones that are most well known throughout households around the world.

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I took inspiration from the Brothers Grimm’s Tales to loosely base my project theme around. I wanted to emphasis the feeling of displacement one tends to grasp when indulging in a graphic story tale or folklore tale. I also adored the way they sourced the details of the stories through local disasters and murders which took place around them at that time. I want to carry this aspect into my own project by collecting crime files which are household know stories and cross examine the finer details with the previously written, well know story tales to see if i can find any resemblance or relationship between the colliding stories.