Bodyworks 2017
Black acrylic paint on stud wall. 230 x 35 x 315 cm aprox.

Digital sketches for Bodyworks. 2048 x 2732 pixels.

As one of our first tasks during the course at Bath Spa, we were asked by our tutor to come up with our own ideas to develop projects. I decided to continue with the line of work that I had started with the machines and the deconstruction exercise, inspired by Landy and by the machine that I had designed during the summer, as well as by the one that I had just constructed in the studio.

I decided to map my own body with form fitting patterns that would allow me to treat the surface of it as the body of a car, made out of parts that can be assembled to end up with the shape of the car.

​I painted a mural on my studio wall to portray this action; and I decided to use the corner where my studio is located, as a fundamental part of this work. By using the space in this way I was trying to express how, working from patterns, a 3D shape can be obtained by combining 2D shapes together. By arranging the pattern pieces in the way that I did I was trying to show how the reproduction of the 3D shape would be possible by assembling the different pieces. How copies of the shape of my body would be possible. 

Photographic documentation of my studio at Bath School of Art, during the creation of bodyworks in October 2017.