More images of THE BURNING

Sun

Getting to the end of my photo sessions, today I destroyed £2 worth of screwdrivers with a blowtorch. It was strangely gratifying mainly because it ended one section of this project, a huge sigh of relief from me.
I also blowtorched the dolls I have been using, this was going to be for another set of photograph, but the dolls didn’t burn properly so they where binned. £10 in the bin. The bin men are going to think we’re bloody weird in our house.
Well as I said destroying screwdrivers with a blowtorch, interesting and nearly fatal. For one cheap screwdrivers catch fire very easily, which is quite distressing on a safety basis.
The next the bloody fumes nearly killed me and filled my yard with thick black smoke.
Some of the images I have created during this project are to me quite shocking, I dislike them and by the look on my face in some of the images you can tell.

Sat

Well did a lot of the photos with the offal today. Had the meat (?) out for a few hours… god the smell.
Pigs harts f**kin stink I have never photographed anything wanting to retch before, I am happy with the photos but not the subject matter.
Also being covered in chocolate sauce isn’t the nicest thing I can think of doing on a Saturday. This entry is starting to sound like a cheap porn novel, I am slowly working my way through cheap genres very quickly.

FRIDAY

The problem I am having at this moment, with this project is that I can’t get the blood consistency right.
God thousands of crap horror films out there and I just end up with something that looks like what it is. Bloody (excuse the pun) chocolate syrup.
Anyhow I did get the animal parts I was looking for.
Two near perfect pigs hearts, Jesus I am sinking into a really bad slasher movie.
I sound like a deranged psycho. The type the neighbours say “oh he was such a nice man, never would have thought that of him”.
Wait until the pictures are done, Damien Hirst has got a lot to answer for…I can’t really blame him for everything, but I’d like to

ARTIST AND OBJECT (VISUAL THINKING)

Damien Hirst often uses the bodies of real animals in his artwork, for example ‘away from the flock’ and ‘mother and child divided’. He has even used real human remains, ‘For the Love of God’ has real human teeth in the piece and a cast of a human skull was used. I am not comfortable using human or animal remains and wouldn’t even know where to get those sorts of things from, so I have improvised.

I did get a pigs heart from a butchers but that was as far as I wished to go, even that was revolting.

I wanted to use images of screwdrivers taking life, so I decided to use two baby dolls. These dolls where used to illustrate innocents.
For the blood I looked at what special effects people used for films years ago. I found chocolate sauce looked like blood in black and white photos so I used that.
I had to dilute it and with a few experiments came up with the right consistency.

I used the pig’s heart, as it is very close in size and shape as a human heart. Our hearts keep us alive so this is a very direst way of looking at death.
The screwdriver through the heart also looks like cupids arrows. The photos I have taken are not something that you would find on a Valentine card though

Hirst “uses shock almost as a formal element… not so much to thrust his work in the public eye… but rather to make aspects of life and death visible.”
Using provocative materials he continually explores theme of mortality in a brutally honest and thought-provoking manner.

Label Turner retrospective exhibition, Tate Britain.

Here is the proposal i am working on at the moment.
I have collected the items needed to hopefully complete this project.

Shrigley essay

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