All talk…

 

After weeks of attempting to get a performance together and discussing numerous ideas in-depth we finally realised that we need to DO. Within our process we needed to get up and try out ideas, rather than just thinking of all the pro’s and con’s of each of them. Part of the process is trying out ideas and seeing if they fail and if so, why? Can we adapt the idea, or just ditch it. One of my peers said we had to look at our ideas, ‘our babies’ and not be afraid to kill them, if they were not working out. After realising we were going around in circles we decided that now we need to get up and try something- anything.

We decided that we would try our ‘washing line’ idea; this line entails us using string to connect us all together and pegging objects to the string to represent a washing line. The items would reflect the realistic side of a woman’s beauty such as; used waxing strips, dirty underwear, leg hair and high heels. These are just a few objects that we experimented with. By actually DOING something we were able to realise that we did like the concept we were portraying through the ‘washing line’ idea. By putting objects which society may forget or not necessarily associate with beauty, I believe it does represent what women go through to keep up with this idea of being ‘the ideal woman’. Although it is not only women that think they have to live up to this idea, men too take measures to keep up their appearances. However, we are a group made up of women and have heavily focused on statue of Venus which is featured in the Usher Gallery we decided that we would play to our strengths and only show our own objects. We have experimented with our own objects to make it personal and reflect what us four go through to live up to this idea of beauty. Although we are still adapting this idea of using the washing line, we just wanted to get up and do something and then see if it failed, rather than just discussing it-again.