For the final piece of the Final Major Project, elements from throughout the entire master’s course were used, this was intentional, as felt it needed to bring everything together in one last show. Some elements from stage one, such as the pearls made from toilet paper, from stage two we see one of the elements of the piece ‘the birth of a parasite’ the image of the female body cradling the pearl is still of great excitement and has proven to be one of the most successful pieces from throughout the course.
One of the elements of the final piece is quite an intimate one, one where the body is exposed fully and put on display. Using skin safe plaster of Paris casting strips, a cast was made of the female form. Another part of the final piece installation is the pink sand that covers the raised platform which inhabits all of the sculptural elements. The original idea behind this final major project installation piece was to create an almost beach like area, half the room would be flooded with water and the other half would be met with sand as if a beach had been brought indoors. This idea seemed to be misled and strayed away from the most important aspects of the work. This was rethought and adapted to better fit the space and the ideas of the work. In the background six moons are projected in a time-lapse video, each one being a photograph of the moon on the night that a mother in my family was born. The moon has much relevance towards the female reproductive and sexual cycles, it is also a satellite for the earth, controlling the tides of water in the ocean and controlling earths gravity. It has been linked throughout history as a tie to the female body, the moon, a big rock that influences the female body, much like how Rosanne Robertson and Barbara Hepworth link certain rock forms and water to female queerness.
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