I started to look at other way’s i could further develop the use of orange peel within my work.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ViIq9QV6be8CY_3KlWER9aTSc3U8iZia

I started to look at way’s that it could be used within a mask.Also using orange peels to cover breasts so that the use of the peels were symbolic in connection with females/the female body.

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After making the mask i realised that one of the peels covered my mouth which almost made me look like i was gagged and powerless.I feel that this tied in well with the whole message of anti-ageing within the industry and women being voiceless just forcefed infomation which they feel pressured into acting on.It also made me think of plastic surgery and of creating a ‘new skin’ and trying to dis-associate from the natural ageing process.I also decided to cover the orange peel in slogans that i found from an article.

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I also looked at different shapes that i could make with the orange peel and tried to reconstruct the peel.I also did a developmental drawing of this using watercolour media.I then added more peel onto the mask to find out what the mask would look like if it covered the whole face.

I then started to look at statistics within the film industry and how on average 74% of men were offered roles above females between 2011-2017.And also a chart showing the ages in which females an males are hired for films.From the age of 36 onwards females seem to be dismissed and from ages 62-72 the ages seem to match up. (these findings being from 2006-2016)

I decided to photocopy the orange peel and reverse the colour.This had a really interesting effect as the texture of the inside of the peel close up has a scaley effect and went blue in colour and looked quite space like.

I then experiemented with imagery using the actress from the baby jane film,orange peel and collage.

I then looked at creating a mask using the inside of the peel and did a collage of this.I felt that the collage was quite sucessful on it’s own.

Looking back at the work i have done so far i think that the collage work is actually more sucessful then the sewn orange peel.I think sewing the orange peel was actually quite time comsuming aswell and that prehaps i should of reckonised this initiatlly and that would enabled myself to get more quick inital responses done.

I also looked at a couple of artists including Paul Mcarthy (for his developmental drawings as suggested by my tutor int he group crit),Sarah lucas for her use of inanimate objects used in a sexual/lewd manner and Emma Finn as suggested by our artist in residence for her use of face masks. Also Martha Rosler due to her reflection on beauty.