So the photography project - disaster. Getting together 6 photos that worked together with similar lighting and a similar subject somehow ended up getting out of hand. But that's okay. I now have my trusty sister on board and hopefully one day soon we can get together and try to remedy the mess that I made. The sculpture project I had the following week made me a lot happier. Using plaster, chicken wire, paint and then a surform to mould and scratch into the plaster surface made me a very happy camper to say the least. I think I much prefer something I can physically get my hands on and change. The brief was about headland - about me, my head or someone else's and the stuff therein. I was inspired by the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the thought of trying to erase someone from my mind. When I was setting up the half-formed face and fragments in a separate room in order to throw some shadows, it dawned on me that my mind is like a workshop where I have stored certain memories in a corner to block them out and to chip away at them over time. Whether that's healthy or not I don't know, but my dad once said to me that it's okay to put things in a corner of your mind until you're ready to deal with them.
