Statement

Had a meeting this morning and was intending to pop over to Liverpool for the afternoon for a few hours at the studios, but I realised I didn’t have enough time to get back for my son so instead I’ve spent an hour working on what it is I want to say, or maybe don’t want to say in my statement.

I’m interested in how we look at ourselves and each other. I read somewhere that it’s easier to be attracted to others if their faces have almost perfect symmetry. But attraction grows as you get to know someone (or doesn’t) and it’s someones personality that really makes them individual, it’s our different qualities that set us apart from one another.

When I first set out to make this installation I just thought it would be interesting to use the skin tones of magazines as a material to make something beautiful from inside the human body.(its whats inside that counts, sort of thing.)

I’m pretty sure I don’t want to comment on the fashion/ model/ glamour industries now. I am interested in what impacts they have on women, but it’s not the core of what this works about and I certainly don’t know enough to comment fully.

I don’t buy/read magazines, I haven’t since I was a teenager, I find them a complete waste of money and such a drain on the environment. Although I haven’t been able to resist reading headlines and bits of stories from the recycled ones (and I mean year old stories that aren’t current at all any more, such a waste of my time!) But what I can’t believe is what drivel they spout. And they are all so repetitive. Anyway I’m off track of what I wanted to say now… As I looked through the different magazines I wasn’t suprised by how women are shown but I was surprised by how much exposure beauty tips, body issues etc got in womens magazines and how perfect the women in the magazines looked.

In a recycled magazine I looked at last week Britney Spears was wanting the readers to see the ‘real’ her and was showing a ‘true’ photograph of herself next to it an airbrushed image. The difference was huge, from cellulite and blemishes to actual inches of flesh being rubbed out.

I don’t know where I’m heading with this… I think no where!

I’m concluding that I don’t want to share my options or thoughts about the modelling industries and when it comes down to it I don’t even want to comment further on what’s underneath being what really counts. When I started this it was just supposed to be a fun simple little piece of work, that spoke for itself. What am I doing?

I want the artwork to do the talking, I feel that if it can’t whats the point? I don’t even mind if it talking to others about things I haven’t intended, so long as it provides an enjoyable and hopefully meaningful experience of some sort.

I’ll probably change my mind tomorrow! haha