Deborah Last: Artist
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Making full size wire figure

19/5/2019

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Today I am beginning a second full size wire figure using my own body as the mould. I have asked a friend for an old wet suit as this is quite scratchy and I think the wet suit might offer a bit more protection. I want the figure to continue to have an anonymity to it but to also open conversation around the birthing stories of others. I’m am beginning to consider how and why I might collect those stories. It would be good to somehow use them on the surface of the figure. I want to experiment with tissue that has stories written onto it. It might be more interesting if these stories were written by other people in their handwriting. It would be good to collect the stories told by mothers, children and fathers... we all fit one of these categories...
I want the wire figure to take the place of triptych used in previous experiments with the slide projections. As soon as I felt that the wooden triptych were too ridged I began to think of them as the form of woman and this feels at the moment they way to represent the birthing mother onto which I will project the liquid slides. The expectation being that light will catch the tissue paper and will also fall on the wall behind the figure.
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  • MA Contemporary Art Practice
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