BERNADETTE REES
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Title: Identity Bundle
Material: Paraffin Wax The body is a versatile media as you can manipulate the flesh without disrupting its original form. How it represents characteristics which are unique to each individual. My work focuses on the human form and how it can represent our identities. I find that I’ve been mainly concentrating on hands. Representing how we as a culture rely on them continuously on a day to day basis. How they help construct our identity through actions and how they help us create our own personalization of the self, such as applying make-up, styling hair etc. How our hands hold our finger prints that are so individual to each person that we are now being identified through the finger print. I’ve chosen to represent these thoughts through my piece showing how we are all the same so I cast individual right hands in stark white paraffin wax and placing them as a cluster of hands so if you look far away they all look the same. But as you get closer you see that each hand is unique within their own right. |