Wednesday 8 June 2011

My Love Affair With A Fabric Sex Doll...

Yesterday morning i started my final piece. It was a toss up between a series of watercolour stills of porno movies and a 1:1 fabric replica of the sex doll made from discarded women's clothes. After asking my classmates which one they preferred (and considering what could be displayed in the central space at the exhibition, where under 18yr olds will be around), i went for the doll...

So this is it - the project (and the year) nearly over!!. I've still got a bit of sketchbook work to do, and i need to find an old T.V. stand, but i'm doing okay for time. I've already got the head, chest and one arm completed. and one leg and one arm is halfway done.

Sewing this doll together is strange. I'm being very careful, like after i finish it will be alive...

Friday 3 June 2011

Update:

So we're nearly at the end of the project, and all is going well...
I'm finishing up my initial ideas, they're really varied, it's great. One idea i had was to create watercolour paintings of stills from porno movies. I really like this idea, it's number 1, closely followed by a sex doll made out of reclaimed fabric, scale 1:1.
 I created this a couple of days ago, from thin neon-style bendable tubing bought on Ebay. It was developed from a rough drawing of the love doll half deflated with its legs in the air. The process was inspired by the way Tracey Emin uses neon to draw with.

Here's a really bad video, from my mobile fone -  it should be rotated once clockwise - i cant work out how to do it :S...