My Mental Health: Perspectives textile project is coming into focus with developed artwork being pho
My Mental Health: Perspectives textile project is coming into focus with developed artwork being photographed on the body. Textile artwork visualises the invisible affects of mental health on the mind and body. Symptoms visualised include feeling restricted around the neck, feeling weight on the chest. Visualising the invisible emotional barrier and cocoon we make for ourselves to shelter us from the external world. A cocoon which also can become a self made and self contained cell. Colours and formations are inspired by participants responses to a questionnaire I conducted on the same theme of asking participants to make their invisible feelings physical through drawing and writing. Responses informed artwork. Colours of greys and blacks generated by an overwhelming theme from most questionnaire responses. Words embroidered with a machine on the bodice state “No one loves me” the words repeated by a participant in their questionnaire over and over again in a mental repetitive chant, that speaks to them internally. Brain formations created by couching long lengths of continuous yarn to represent familiar motifs. Cage made from corset boning to symbolise the cocoon. Corset-like lacing pulls in around the neck to be restrictive of comfortable movement and weights pull down on the shoulders. 2018. Wool felt, eyelets, cord, polyester threads, cotton yarn, fishing weights, shoulder pads, press studs, plastic corset boning. With thanks to and in collaboration with: Photographer: Laura Ruxton @aurora_luxx Model: Amy Textile art: Louisa Hammond -- source link
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