Some of the things that were mentioned to me by peers/new artist in residence and the tutor during my latest crit was:

• Callender girls
• Plastic surgery- Look at sewing and collaging together photographs
• Photography of old skin
• Fountain of youth
• silhouttes of bodies
• photoshop editing
• fashionable ‘granma’s’
• paint with makeup
• make own beauty advertisment mocking beauty adverts
• What does it mean to be invisable?
• Have older women become inivisable or has culture changed?
• is this invisability more prominent in women?
• is it about ageing in general or is it more prominent in women?
• Do you want to focus on one person?
• Susan Boyle-Audiences laughed before hearing her sing because she wasn’t ‘convienantly attractive’
• good research-from tv and stats.
• Good variety of mediums
• What does the idea of invisability mean?-Desire?Power?What do you loose?
• Idea of meat-use pieces of meat
• Try out photography-bring real women to light
• Internet influencers to look at Baddie wrinkle.

During my crit I was asked to look at what i am really interested in and try to refine what i was looking at.I had mentioned briefly how I was quite interested in Jennifer Grey’s plastic surgery story where she had had surgery on her nose to make herself more employable yet it had ended up loosing her work because she was no longer reckonisable.The teacher suggested that if this was what i was interested in then i would need to do a lot of research fast.

I decided to start researching images of people who had had plastic surgery and quite quickly found myself uncovering alot of ‘botched plastic surgeries’One of particular interest was a korean lady who used to be a model called Hang Mioku.She became addicted to plastic surgery and was refused any more so decided she would inject silicon into her skin at home and when she ran out of silicon she used cooking oil.This in turn disfigured her face badly.She then went on a tv show to ask people to raise money so that she could get corrective surgery.She has had 10 corrective surgeries since but surgeons aren’t able to fully correc the damage that has been done to her face.

I also started to consider the cycle of plastic surgery.And how this could be considered in terms of work so i thought about the construction and the reconstruction of this woman’s face and also about showing the mental trauma which is cause by body dismorphia by looking at your body under a magnifying glass so much so that you start to distort your minds image of what your body looks like.

I also think there is alot of power play between the patient and the surgeon.That person may think they are in control of what happens to their body but really that control liys in the hands of the surgeon which can be so easily abused leading to botched plastic surgeries.