Our homes are mirrors ourselves
The project is based on Joseph Cornell whose field is
assemblage, experimental film and sculpture.
He uses objects and memorabilia to build up his designs. I have also been inspired by the work of Tom
Mosely who works with Assemblage and geometric shapes.
I will also be using one of Frida Kahlo
painting’s known as Self Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) as a reference for
my work.
Kahlo painted the self-portrait with cropped hair shortly
after she divorced her unfaithful husband Diego Rivera. She often painted self-portraits of herself as
a traditional Mexican woman wearing traditional clothes with long flowing hair
but in this painting she painted herself wearing a man’s suit with short hair
in renunciation of Rivera with her cut hair all over the floor around her.
In my home my special place is my walk in wardrobe. I aim to reconstruct this into the form of a 3D box. It’s a place where I keep my favourite things including my grandmother’s jewellery, my father’s medals and some other things that remind me of Colombia.
I recreated the room within a 3D Box. In the centre of the box will be a 3D figure
of me sitting on a chair holding a mirror.
On the floor instead of hair will be some broken glass from the mirror
to represent the successes and failures that we all go through in life that
define me. In that room I feel close to
my father and grandmother.
In order to make the 3D picture of myself I hired the
university’s photo studio and dressed up like Frida Kahlo for a photo-shoot. I set up the shoot and got a friend to take
the photos. I created the other objects out of cardboard
and placed them in the box. There are
three windows in the box and as you move around the box you can see the 3D
image of me through each of the windows.
Dimensions:
Box 12 cm. x 9 cm.
Final Design
Dimensions:
Box 12 cm. x 9 cm.
Final Design
