Digital Images

Whats on the box?

Cut a yer wan.

Walking through.

Limerick.

Screen prints

For the humour brief my origonal idea was to take the piss out of these practical householder magazines from the 50s and 60s that I picked up in a car boot sale. Then i read an article with a list of instructions on how to be a good wife claiming to be from an 1950s homeconomics book, it had ridiculous instructions like dont bother your husband when he gets home he works hard for the family and always remember he is the master of the house. I was laughing at how backward it was, feeling quite smug about how far we've come but when I looked into it further it turned out to be a fake there was no record of that home economics book ever existing. 

Even if the article was a fake we know a similar rhethoric was drummed into young girls at this time but I began to think about fact that we compare now and then to make ourselves feel better about "how far we've come" I went from this to looking at female stereotypes and the fact that women can be our own worst enemies. It is a stereotype but in my opinion a fairly accurate one; women are most judgemental about other women. So with this idea in mind I appropriated two images one of Sophia Loren from the 50s looking terribly judgemental and a photo of a "modern bimbo". I flipped the negative comparison of then and now.

Finished screenprint

Etchings

Staying with the spaces and structures brief I wanted to incorporate some of my movement drawings of people. Tying in the people I encounter with the spaces I encounter.

Original dry-point.

With my first etching I drew onto the plate based on a drawing of my roommate and my lithograph repeated in miniture. Both Noelle and myself felt the image was very flat so I went back to my sketch book.

I decided to work with my layered electrical wire sketch as I wanted to stay working with pattern and I liked the line, the tangled pieces.

Experiments with chine colle:

And back to the houses.

Aquatint and etching.

Final edition.