I made this piece last year and I got it out again as I believe it still fits in with what I am working on this year - especially in relation to ways of covering the face. The best thing about this series of pictures is that I didn't even instigate them. I was out on my lunch before going back to uni and my friends saw the piece sticking out of my bag. Their curiosity got the better of them and without me even saying anything they were trying it on and running around in it. It is also reassuring to know that as an artist I don't have to explicitly tell people to wear something, that if they are the right sort of person and in the right environment their curiosity will just get the better of them.
It was nice to see my work out of the studio and into an everyday environment, and the everyday context is something I have thought about throughout my practice. I think seeing my work in this everyday context gives the piece more of a character, especially in the last image, as the orange shape looks like hair and makes it look more 'human'. This has also made me think about the documentation of my work vs. The live performance or action. The documentation is obviously important for evidence for grading but the fact that I had to get my friend to repeat the dance for the purpose of documentation takes something away from the spontanaity of the action, even if the audience seeing the documentation doesn't know that.
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