Monday, 2 March 2015

Group Crit

Wax dolls-
  • Something religious about wax doll- looks like Virgin Mary.
  • Looks flurescent, like it would glow in the dark- reminicent of cartoon monsters.
Plaster dolls-
  • Like trophy awards at Oscars.
  • Importance of the pose; calming pose, could appear like wings (links to religious ideas) frozen hands.
  • Head without makeup; like a baby, looks tribal- tribal mask, African tribal head, melted body.
  • Narrative emerging from object.
  • Innocence of white, frozen calming pose.
Plaster dolls as a group-
  • Become units.
  • Slaves, killed, burnt.
  • Repetition, loses history, meaning, becomes less special, less valuable, less unique.
  • Repetition also suggests the importance of the original.