Smothered - Self Initiated Work

I decided to explore using a body and photography with the responses, and created 'Smothered' as a piece to display visually how some people may deal with emotions. Following looking at the response 'No Feelings' I painted the reply repeatedly onto blue cellophane with red paint. Alone on a wall it looked slightly like something from a horror film, so I decided to play around with its form. I wanted the girl to be nude because I feel that this is an incredibly intimate topic, very private and raw like the human physique. On her body in some areas I wrote out a couple of responses I had received. Underneath the right breast one can just see 'I wish him well'. This is a delicate, soft response located at an intimate area of the body, an area perhaps once shared with this unknown partner. The cellophane sits in an awkward and uncomfortable shape on her head, shining in the light. The viewer can see just from the texture that this uncomfortable material must be suffocating and hot, much like the sensation of covering or hiding emotions. Usually one would have their body covered and face exposed, whereas this juxtaposition emulates the intimacy and sensitivity of these thoughts VS the idea of displaying a hard exterior. The girl is sat on a bed, again displaying connotations to intimate relations. She appears to be sat stiffly, with arms locked behind her. This uncomfortable looking position mimics the discomfort of the smothering head piece, and perhaps implies she wishes to break away from it.

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