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By Thom Twist..... all handknit

M A R I L E N E - O L I V E R

Dreamcatcher: Laser cut clear acrylic, fishing wire and ostrich feathers. 210 x 50 x 150cm

Iceman Frozen Scanned and Plotted: Drillholes in acrylic and flourescent light, 170 x 60 x 30cm

Radiant (detail): Inkjet on acrylic, 50 x 70 x 100cm

Acupuncture needles in high density foam , 100 x 100 x 4cm, unique

Nesting (detail): Hand engraved blown lead crystal , variable sizes (3 - 45cm high)

A R T I S T -S T A T E M E N T

The virtual world created by the computer is one that provides no place for the physical body. As communications technology and the use of the Internet is becoming an integral part of our lives, the absence of the physical in the virtual space is destined to provoke changes in the physical body and in our relationship to it in the real world. My work centres around this relationship, seeking to explore and create ways of intimately representing the physical body.

My relationship with the body is nostalgic and romantic, based on an anxiety that the body is becoming redundant. New technologies, especially communications and medical imaging alienate us from the bodies that we have. They promote a decentralisation of the self - they allow us to project ourselves into different spaces and offer us new views of our bodies that belittle being contained in a physical body.

Another Sculptural Idea

just had another idea and as i have a creative brain like a sieve i thought i should write it down quickly....

Dreamcatchers.....learn how to make them. I had the idea of creating living tree branches into dream catchers, so weaving within tree branches themselves. Similar idea to idea from sculpture gardens about weaving with multicoloured threads on metal between the trees. (look up artists name through Talia) .

''Traditionally, the Ojibwa construct dreamcatchers by tying sinew strands in a web around a small round or tear-shaped frame of willow (in a way roughly similar to their method for making snowshoe webbing). The resulting "dream-catcher", hung above the bed, is used as a charm to protect sleeping children from nightmares. As dreamcatchers are made of willow and sinew, they are not meant to last forever but are intended to dry out and collapse as the child enters the age of adulthood.^{[citation needed]}

The Ojibwa believe that a dreamcatcher changes a person's dreams. According to Terri J. Andrews, "Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through . . . Bad dreams would stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day."^[4] Good dreams would pass through and slide down the feathers to the sleeper.''

SCULPTURAL INSPIRATION!

Sculptural......
''Inner space'' a meditative outlook- the vulnerability of the human mind/body.
Sculptural female forms- in different media, cracked broken forms like that of the scultor in the octagon in bath.... the contact of two froms together to create a space.... 2 forms entwined housing something within the space they create together?

Use different media- plaster, clay, metal, recycled materials........

going back to my roots- create a character, sketch work and final costume creation!

IDEA: going back to what i was starting to do at A-level.....

Possible to create a 'hideaway', a dwelling or space, from that distressed dissolveable fabric hessian i used to make for my pixie skirt...

sculputal costume design- rationel behind my 'fork dress' idea!

Sha Sha Higby

lacquered paper, copper work, leather....costumes worn by artist and then performed with: installation/performance wear.

more Sawdust and Diamonds Inspirothon!

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And these pretties from (http://boudoirqueen.typepad.com/my_weblog/boudoir-queen-look-book/)

Recycled Art...Ethical Art....

Robert Zverina

Recreate the wardrobe into a room thing like in the changing room at the Junk Store in the Northern Quarter, Manchester..... Narnia...eco stylie :-) A smaller version of my sculptural eco childrens garden idea: a spinning wheel with glass bottles painted etc?

S+D inspiration please!

Si:Su : 'to produce eco-friendly products from sustainable materials as we feel strongly about the issues concerned with consumer wastage and the damaging effects of fabric production on the environment. '