As a Mean girls fanatic I decided to ask each person if they had felt personally victimised by Covid,but what I did not expect was to unravel the household dramas that covid had caused in certain student households.I found it interesting that almost all of the participants choose a different colour to reflect on their experience with Covid.I decided to ask a variety of ages from the age of 9-50s.I was interested to see how a child would persieve it in comparison to an adultand also how each participant applied the paint when asked to apply it to the areas they felt it the most.Was the application of the paint connected to their own personal memory of covid?Taylor applied her paint like make-up whilst re-counting her personal experience of covid mixed whilst Marlee who i expected to apply the paint in a messy fashion due to being a child aplied it daintily and carefully to her throat and choose black which I found to be unexpected too.

Inspired by these stage scenes from ‘This is the story of a woman who’ from the book ‘Marina Abramovic the artist body’ ‘ I got Taylor and Kristina to try and recreate a fight scene of there own,showing the tension that has built up amongst the housemates since the ‘outbreak’

Taylor

I loved taylor’s dramatised version of events and have decided I would like to interview her in the green room in the future if possible.I love that it became almost like ‘Covid the soap opera’I also found that filming taylor outside was quieter then filming in the studio and her smoking whilst applying the paint gave a glimpse at her character and made the film seem more ‘personal’

Marlee

Emily

Altho this was the only video filmed using a tripod and I feel like the shot length is right I didn’t expect the noise of the studio to reverb so much which frustrated me as the video had great content and Emily thought hard about her answers.

Kristina

Kristina’s application of the paint was messy and creative,she also demanded to be filmed up high on a table which wasn’t the best due to the noise and her being quietly spoken

June

There is a first half to this film but I decided to just post the 2nd half due to June talking about being treated like a ‘leper’ as she got covid during the early stages of the Pandemic as oposed to the later stages when more was known about it and the stigma had worn off.June didn’t agree to the face paint.

Alana and Claire

Both felt quite shy about being interview individually but agreed to be interviewed together and refused face paint.

Naia.

BUT EVERYTHIng tastes like sponge?

During Covid and still now I have no taste nor smell.I wanted to show this by eating food then eating sponge and vice versa.Sadly I could only get white sponge which blended too much with the plate.It turns out sponge is really hard to pick up with a fork also!I’ve never realised how I have taken such simple pleasures for granted untill now.

Alex DA CORTE

Tutor had memtioned how my work was reflective of Alex Da Corte and Wahols,altho there food obviously stayed conistant throughout!There is something mesmerising however about watching people eat and how they eat as each person’s style seems one onto their own.