Roi here, posting about my work. So I have done a bunch of work so I am going to post 3 "works" in each post and talk about them, probably crit them a bit. So yeah lol.
Recap:
This year my project is supposed to be about materiality of objects and the "material" I chose to use was stuffed toys.
So I went out to op-shops, second hand stores, salvation armies, hospice shops, etc. to buy a sh*t load of stuffed toys and after spending $70-$100 I got lots, which by the way I had to walk up a huge assssss evil hill/long street with lol. Anyway after a long while of thinking (not really thinking) and discussions with people, I was still stuck haha. Then one day in our lecture we got explained how to deal with this work and one of the tutors told us that we could "think of it as looking at a material, de-constructing it and reconstructing it as something else". That explanation made me think of the anime "Fullmetal Alchemist" because that sentence was basically the steps of alchemy in that story. Then I thought of chimeras and how they were mixes of different animals. So since then I made the decision to make stuffed toy chimeras for my work.
Black Bear
My first work for this project was not a chimera but more of a experiment in "animal mutilation" in a way lol. It is basically a black stuffed teddy bear with its left eye cut and the cut sown back shut whilst still having the eye hanging.
four sided view:
Close up of the eye stitching:
So this is just an experiment but when it was discussed by my peers they really liked how even though the bear is cut up and looks mutilated, it has been sort of fixed but not perfectly using the red wool that complimented the black. Also that the red gives it a more sinister look but it is still a fix job for the bear, a contrast between the connotations of the colour red and the actual "fixing" the wool is doing.
Turtle/Dog Experiment
This is my very first experiment with mixing animals together. It is basically a turtle with the head of a puppy attached to its neck. It is not very thought out, actually it had no thought into it really. It is a turtle which is cut where the back neck and shell connect so that I could make room for something else to go in. Decided to use a pupppy head without a thought really and this is how it came out as.
it is pretty sh*ttily sown together and nor good at all but it was just an experiment with making "chimeras".
Dolphin/Doggy Work
So this is the 3rd work I made, 2nd chimera but 1st one I actually consider and semi-ok. It is a dolphin connected by its back/blowhole to the neck of the dog and its body.
various view points:
Close up of join:
It is better put together and more stable than the 1st chimera, and I know the stitching is painfully clear but I like showing the stitching in an obvious way because I want the work to still be seen as "stuffed toys" and also like to have the animals to be known as been put together by cutting up and combining various parts. I quite like that how the dolphin actually fitted pretty well with that body and so half of the side has a pretty well connected "flesh" or something lol while the other was sort of bumpy and not smooth.
The chimera work were liked by quite a few people but it was agreed that it wasn't the strongest work in my collection (I will post a blog about those work later on) but it could be developed further and made better. There are also more animal reconfigurations that I have made that I will post in my next blog.
That is all for now!
Less than three!!!
Bai bai!!!
Roi
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