03/12/2021 End of teaching for the semester and formative hand in ! Date on this one doesn’t match

Date on this one doesn’t match because I forgot to post it!

The last 12 weeks have been the absolute quickest, and now all current work has been submitted for a formative review, so like, what now?

I suppose for me, I will just be continuing working, a lot of the things I have been trying and thinking about and planning are in that middle stage of development but are slowly starting to tip towards becoming resolved. As an MA cohort, we will be exhibiting work next semester, and that makes me think about actual resolution of work and ideas, rather than just making to think through the process and context.

The development and creation of the work wont just stop and then pick up again when we receive feedback on the 7th January. I want to follow up on the plans I have been making and come back into the studio with more work to develop and refine into exhibition-worthy artworks.

What I finished this semester with, is a range of ideas, experimentations with textiles and moving image. I have re-learned some video editing techniques as this is something I had not worked with in a while and I began to play with the interaction between the still object and the moving image- something I am still working away at, hoping to really hit on something valuable in this.

I’d began with images of bodies, female figures, and their anatomy, and what I am moving forward with is a deeper focus on the uncanny nature of the internal body, referring specifically to the womb and conditions of the womb – endometriosis, PCOS. Of particular interest is the modern-day interpretation of endometriosis as the hysterical wandering womb. Even still needing more research into this, I am fascinated with the idea of wandering cells, the wandering womb, causing the hysteria of the feminine, this creature the cause of fear to the masculine.

Embodying and creating a visual representation of this creature, a glamorous monster, I am interpreting this into a sculpture, which I then intend to use as prop in video work. This will then give me different exhibition options, to display objects with the video works they feature in, or to focus solely on the video and the way in which video work is presented – I am still very taken by the idea of having the screens held or hidden within sculptures.

Hopefully in the next few weeks I will have further solidified plans for these, perhaps even some in the making.