From visiting Only Human: Martin Parr exhibition I came across Fotoesculturas, a style of art in Mexico that creates photo sculptures, hand-carved from wood and incorporating a photograph transferred onto the wood. Making the image look 3D. I really liked the idea of making the image 3D and from the amount of pillows and teddies in my nan’s flat I came up with the idea of transferring a picture and then creating a doll by stuffing it with padding to make it like a pillow. I first tried with printing an actual imagine of my nan, I knew that the print would be successful because I printed onto a synthetic material and then I wanted to draw one using oil pastels. when sewing the pieces together I wanted to sew around the doll but inside out so that you wouldn’t see the sewing, however after stuffing the doll, the open part that I would have to sew would be the only part that I couldn’t hide I would have to sew it on the outside. So I decided that I was going to have the sewing visible around the edge of the doll which I really liked after because it gave it character and made it look ragged and old which is like her other teddies and pillows that she has in her flat, it shows time. I could develop this further by embroidering the my nan using the embroidery machine to then create another texture for one of my dolls.
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