This removal from threat via the image is one of the issues I need to resolve when presenting the work. Do I want people to feel lest confronted ? will this help the questioning if they feel safe? Or will the feeling of being overwhelmed with smell and touch make be so confronting that people will not engage.
To date I have sculpted the scoby into life size human forms – but given the time constraints of an Honours program and the time it takes to grow large sheets of scoby (months) – time is not on my side for growing any more large experimental sheets – so this was an opportunity to cover most of the body with scoby – As if some one had decided to replace most of their skin with a new technology – rather than wearing a skin tag. The result was mush more macabre than I anticipated. One of the key elements I discovered earlier on is that the work is slightly less repelling when viewed from the lens – the camera takes the immediacy and the reality away – you will not feel the warm slime like texture, you will not smell the vinegar or receive a disturbed puff of penicillin spore up your nose – you are safe – you are removed from any threat.
This removal from threat via the image is one of the issues I need to resolve when presenting the work. Do I want people to feel lest confronted ? will this help the questioning if they feel safe? Or will the feeling of being overwhelmed with smell and touch make be so confronting that people will not engage.
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