17/01/20
I am scared of losing my creativity.
I want to expand on the idea of knowing someone’s body even if they are not physically present in the room.
My first experiment was a simple cord strung diagonally across the room, a division that splits the room in two, and everyone standing in it. So if the line is the symbol of division, what is the symbol of unity? In my eyes, it is the circle.
I am unsure how I can incorporate a circle motif into this. I’ll have to sleep on that.
21/01/20
Today, I went back to the campus to set up my experiment. I figured out how to make an artwork concerning circles.
First, I brought my leftover yarn, some magnets, and some string from the drafts of my first experiment.
I wrapped the yarn around parts of my body: my wrist, upper arm, neck, bust, waist and thighs, looped and held the yarn together with a safety pin at the circumference of those body parts. The example below is with the circumference of my wrist.
(Tiny wrists, I know.)
I then did something that probably broke various OH&S standards: stood on a chair and threw my ball of yarn over the beams that held the electric lights, adjusting it so that when I stood on the ground, the loop of yarn would be about where my body part the yarn was measured from hung. For example, since this loop was measured from my wrist circumference, it hangs at the height of my wrists.
I weighed down the thread with a magnet and cut it. I repeated this with my upper arm, neck, bust, waist, and thigh circumference. This is the end result.
The concept is similar to my first experiment. Even if I am not in the room, you know my body size and the size of particular body parts due to these little bits of string. It creates a strange and perhaps uncomfortable intimacy between me and the audience, considering you now know my bust size and thigh circumference, things that not even my boyfriend knows. My tendencies, the habits of my body that can be used to identify me, are here.