Mirror

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