Decided to get rid of the paper but keep the idea of the outline by using wire to 'draw' it. I stuck with manageable limbs instead of whole bodies and played around for quite a while trying to master it. Here is a link to one attempt...
Then after talking to ken decided to be a bit cleverer about things...
Put the bits in the big wooden boxe/shelf things outside the studio and decided something made sense!
The fact that i could quite directly replicate parts of the body with the wire and place them into these boxes seemed to give both a visual and conceptual reason to carry on....
I'm pleased with the resolution as i think it works well on both levels....even though i know this is my own person view :)
The visual seemed to be attractive because of its realness...
The shapes coming from real bodies as well as the positions they where in seemed to give the wire a 2d/3d illusion; making it a kind of analytical drawing even though its a sculpture. Forgetting all that, it just looked cool.
The conceptual was the body parts in the shelf/box visually (for me) spoke of similarities and difference's we all have in our identity. This is the main thing that came from my research....
The analytical body parts where a symbol of humanity as one and that we in many respects are the same..the fact each body part is different, segregated and repeated into sections shows the fact we are also completely different and individual.
I know 'different but also the same' is a contradiction, is that wrong? Identity seems to be made out of lots of things... Maybe the importance is the balance of these...
Realising the reality there are lots of people similar and lots of people different to you; whether it be in taste or just general looks. ('We all have fingers but never the same fingerprint' comes to mind).
In your life you can either embrace these differences or ignore them. Depending on what you choose and why during your life i think could lead to peoples true identity? Maybe this then leads to a natural contradiction between people....what would the world be like if we were all the same?!
Maybe thats why identity is a strong basis for so many arguements and as a whole has and will always come out in so many issue's?
In my opinion the more open and respectful we are of these differences the more our identity will and does grow.
Maybe its just about getting on with life; understanding or not.....
I plan to fine tune the piece for the presentation tomorrow, above are photo's of parts of it while devevloping/resolving...
Here's a link for some really cool looking wire sculptures by Ptolemy Elrington.
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