why do people keep asking if the critters are for sale?
The travelling circus has moved on.
Just a couplemore shots neededmaybe?
I was thinking of doing an interactive photo album/family tree thing using flash. As well as a physical one??
Today I was back in the city, with the large critters. While at southbank, they got a free photo taken of them, care of HP photo truck/van thing. The guys 'wrangling' for peopleto get their free instant photos thought the critters were great, and were only to happly to oblige in taking their photo, even adjusting the fixed camera. While the printlady inside the van was a bitch, mouthing off about how 'gory and gruesome' they were.
You can't please everyone, but then I never set out to.
my brain slowly churning once more...which is a good thing...
OK.
Tourist family + Melbourne = Family snaps = holidays photo album = prints or photos left back at initial sites?
=family tree/family history = who are they? = where (I'll come back to this later tonight)
un petit promenade
TOday with the help of Lauren, I took my big Studio critters out in to the wide world, for some family snaps. Unfortunately, as soon as we started out, the rain began. At the moment, the critters are drying out...I think I'll have to iron them, they're quite crumpled.
2 of ther minies were left around. One on a busy train, and I gave to a British couple. (I know i wanted people to find them, but this lady rocked) I got a couple of shots...fed square, town hall, cnr collins/swanson where the Xmas tree goes.
I'm doing some more shots tommorrow...Have some better ideas, hoping they will be more successful.
wow 50 posts!
...so what about something like this:
Yous can see in the 'cheesy' photos I took of the completed critters, they're positioned on a couch like a 'family' Someone even said...."ooh, domestic violence"... So what?
...What do families do together... Vacation (well some, not mine)
What so visitors to Melbourne do? Sight see.
Perhaps a mix of big and miniatures could do a series of 'family snaps' at melbourne landmarks.
Fed square...southbank...cook's cottage...other tourist like locations...??
Leaving behind one of the small ones at each location????????
A few changes
Ok, so I've decided to scrap one character, the plucked out eye. Why? I couldn't find a reference passage to work with. I didn't think I could stand to paint the front of the body with turpentine becoming my arch nemesis.
Now that leaves 4 styles:
Dismember-footless-cinderella
Disembowel-snowwhite
Dismember-hand issues-the apple tree
Scratched-shredded torso-sleeping beauty
Also the small ones in boxes has been scrapped, I think I'll just use them for the presentation...??
A context?
The end is near, time to bring it all together.
Here is my main idea for the Big things:
I want them to both inhabit an existing and create a space of their own.
So I was planning to position them in two different environments, using photography to capture/assist?
First type of environment would be parklands...a forrest like place as a throw back to the original settings of fairytales. The forrest being used as a metaphor for many things dark and immoral. A park or treed area is a nod to the traditional surrounds, and enables the critters to inhabit an existing space. They don't seem out of place. Ask questions, make remarks if agree, not agreed, etc. Please!
Second environment using the city street scape, the alleys. The backstreets are the forrest of today. Don't stray from the path, go straight to grandma's house...danger lurks in the forrest...
Ok, so with the two different settings, I thought photography could be a good way to capture the contrast and draw out the similarities. tradition/updated, plant lush natural/concrete urban artificial...
Please add any thoughts on this.
The extra small ones, the miniatures (3 X 5 styles)
SOmeone in class suggested planting them in toy sections of unsuspecting stores. Perhaps? or perhaps leaving them around in no specific place, tagged with and email or web address for a finder (if found) to contact and leave some sort of response/photo/other...
THoughts/improvements/criticisms please
The small ones:
These are to be boxed/pinned like the butterfly or insect displays a museum has.
The box is rather plain, painted card stitched corners acetate front, I don't knwo really what to do with these. I was thinking to affix them to an alley wall, or someplace around the city, Inside tagged once again with contact details or something??
SO yes any remarks, thoughts, improvements, dislikes anything at all. Please leave a comment!!
clone army
A small one and it's miniatures
Without their faces and blood, I find them creepy...these are for distribution.
Each of the 5 styles will have 3 miniatures of them to be left around various locations.
they're multiplying
Small ones, and their miniatures
Severed hands- The apple tree
Severed feet- Cinderella.
I was watching Braveheart while making these, and couldn't help but thinking how all layed out bleeding on the paper, they are like the bloodied battleground when Robert the Bruce and the nobles double cross Wallace and the scots.
family ties
Two of the completed big ones:
Disembowel- SNow white
Severed toes and heels- Cinderella
with five of the small ones:
Disembowel, Severed feet,
Severed hands- the apple tree
Scratched- Sleeping beauty
eye plucked- other
what happened to you?
SO I basically completed all of the big things, 5 in total, I just need to sew their heads on. Surrounded by heads, I'm feeling a bit like that evil princess mombi from return to Oz, the one with the cabinets full of heads...
One more small thing to assemble, and to create their boxes (picture coming soon)
Also sewing more litle ones to distribute around selected areas (picture coming soon)
