Living Dolls Collection

Using the presentation technique I've been working with so far, I've compiled a collection of images from the Living Dolls shoot.

Living Dolls Shoot

Inspired by the book, I set out to turn myself into a living doll, playing out the extreme femininity and hyper-sexuality modern girls are encouraged to embrace.

I started trying to pose like an actual doll, remembering how Barbie would never sit on a chair properly. It didn't matter how you bent her legs, she always looked like she was kinda lying down on an angle rather than sitting. Frustrating!!




I then moved on to typical feminine poses...


Then on to poses inspired by the fashion industry.

Ugly Beauty

Speaks for itself really...

Finally, an image I like...

Here's my first true success during this project. Created accidentally whilst trying to balance a coin over each eye. Turns out my awkwardness in trying to keep the second coin from falling made a cool facial expression.

Money and Portraits

This shoot had to be brief, so I feel as though it's quite unfinished.
Despite this I got some good images...




Looking at this top image, I can see that I've been influenced by Damo's tape project in sculpture, taking one of his ideas and applying it to what I'm doing without realizing. Oops.








I hate the dopey expression in this photo. It ruins it in a way.




The style of processing for all of these images is quite erratic, and I think an improvement would be to group the common images and process them in the same format.

Typology Experiment

Here I have placed a group of images of documents together to create a typology.
It was meant as an experiment, dealing with one aspect of my life and making a private aspect public, without revealing much of the private information.
I intended to create a sense of conflict and unease without disclosing what exactly transpired.

Pimp My Blog

I've finally got around to updating this blog and making it all run like clockwork. You'll notice now that besides it looking better, there are also tags and links between blogs.

I've also finally invested in an illuminated keyboard, so I can stay up later without going mad from the amount of typos I'm making in the darkness. This means that I will also be getting around to updating this workbook with what I've been up to and some notes from my physical workbook.

mmmm.... delicious.