Birth Death Day
"Birth Death Day"
A Series of Art Works, Appropriation, Augmented Reality, Textiles, Collages
My own birth certificate, x3 baby grows, Mod Podge (photo transfer), thread, a selection of baby clothes, tracing paper, camera, video camera, birthday cake, candles, lighter, lights, black icing, dummy, pants, felt, ink, needle, baby blanket, Adobe Photoshop, text, artivive, printed images associated with deaths and birth/pregnancy.
"Birth Death Day". Is a series of art works all exploring the same theme, of the loss of a baby on the day it is born. But explored through different materials.
The first art work being the appropriation of my own birth certificate, which has been altered into my own death certificate. All with the exact same details. Showing how short a new borns life can be. Nothing.
The second work is a duration piece. It is an Augmented Reality work, which uses a birthday cake. Showing the anniversary of a lost child. Using my own details on the cake relating back to myself, but keeping it open for interoperation by u with no name.
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Videos of the art work and still images.
The third art work is a series of textile works.
The first being a trio of baby grows, using transfer images and stitching.
The second being a remembrance quilt. Made using old baby clothes each telling their own story, coming together to create one thing. surrounding loss.
The last being another appropriated art work. using a baby blanket juxtaposing text on top, using phrases which shouldn't be said to someone who has just lost their child.
Another work within the series is another textile piece. it s a pair of pants which contain a small felt foetus , and blood clots cover in red ink which have been photographed within a bathroom setting a seen which may be familiar to some. Overlaying them with text explain what is being shown in work.
Final work in the series is a series of collages, using found imagery and first hand imagery. Creating small narratives within them. exploring loss, birth, death, grief and time.
