Initially, I wanted my project to revolve mainly around Victorian Silhouettes/Victorian fashion, and the comparison between "social statuses" with in the Victorian era. I wanted to use fabrics to depict the clothing worn by the women of that time. After a rather long thought process, my idea continued to change, though still sticking to the Victorian silhouette "theme". Upon further research I decided upon making my project about " The filling of space".
My first piece consists of two drawings on canvas, each of a Victorian silhouette, within the actual figures are a collection of randomly placed images filling the entire space, my inspiration for this came from a series of wall drawings I came across as well as tattoos. I simply wanted to fill the space with the images as they came to mind with out giving it too much thought, making it as random as possible.
My second piece gave me a bit of difficulty, just to come up with an idea. After some thought I decided that I would fill an actual space using Victorian silhouettes . My chosen "space" was one of the lockers in the back of the studio. For this piece I spray painted the silhouettes with the use of a stencil, on the inside of the locker, covering the surface. After comparing and analyzing the two pieces, i noticed things that I never considered during the process, such as the actual action that took place while filling these spaces, spray painting the locker could have been seen as an act of vandalism to some, though it wasn't, the locker could have been someone's personal space, as it is usually viewed, and this can be related back to the drawings which somewhat resemble graffiti which is seen as an act of vandalism.One is then made to ask, What is space? How is it filled? Why do we fill space? Are the spaces used personal?
