Wrapped Human Body Research Packet

 

 

 

RESEARCH PACKET

 

Wrapped Human Body

 

Student Name: Daelynn Murphy

Select two different themes from the assignment guidelines posted on class blog. Answer questions for each theme. Select one idea to complete.

https://foundations3ddesign.blogspot.com/2014/05/wrapped-human-body-required-assignment.html

Two pages in the packet.

Each page worth three (3) points.

Up to six (6) points can be deducted from project grade

for not completing the Research Packet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theme #1     Social Injustice/Social Commentary – The Male Gaze

 

1.      What material(s) will you use to wrap the body? May use more than one material. At least 95% of the body must be covered. Do not use materials that prohibit the model from breathing.

 

Black sheets whole and cut into ribbons to drape over and wrap the body more tightly. Red sheets to act as a curtain that hangs from the wall and also encases the body.

 

2.      How is the color and texture of the material you selected significant to your theme?

The sheets reference both the sexualization of the female figure, the correlation between prostitution and red bedsheets as portrayed in films but also reminiscent of a curtain, a stage from which women are presented. The rest of the body disappearing into the background through the wrapping of the black cloth.

 

3.      How will you wrap the body? Loosely? Systematically? Combination? How is this important to your idea?

A majority of the figure will be wrapped loosely, obscuring the form. The breasts and pelvic region will be wrapped tightly to draw attention to them, as those are the regions focused on by the male gaze.

 

4.      Consider the pose of the model. Will viewer be able to recognize human form? Or will body blend in, be camouflaged in environment?

The figure will be “suspended” from the black cloth that attaches to the black base on the wall, protruding forward where the curtain parts, she will be kneeling on the bed, leaning forward with her arms tethered to the wall, bound and being presented to the viewer. The bottom half of the figure, below the tightly wrapped pelvic region, will be obscured by the closed “curtains.”

 

5.      What site have you chosen? Site can be interior or exterior. Consider public spaces as long as you are not endangering anyone’s safety or damaging the area.

The site will be an interior wall above a bed, the bed against the bare wall.

 

6.      Why is the site significant? Consider how the colors, textures, shapes, lines that are present in the environment support your theme?

The walls will be blank except for the figure in the wall mounted “stage” above the bed, resembling the way in which slaves were once tethered to the wall. The bed an obvious reference to sexuality. The model is crammed into this space between 4 walls and the viewer, closing her in.

 

7.      When arranging the model and objects in the space, is it necessary to create a symmetrical arrangement? Asymmetrical? Why?

The form will be naturally suspending from the wall, asymmetry will create a more convincing appearance though it is not necessary.

 

8.      How will you utilize space? Will you create a foreground, middle and background? Where will the model be placed and why?

The figure will be in the foreground as she is the focus of the piece. There will be a blackness created by the cloth behind the figure.

 

9.      How will the wrapped body interact/be part of the chosen environment? Will the wrapped body be standing? Sitting? Crouched? Curled up? Limbs extended?

She will be kneeling on the bed and tethered to the wall with strips of sheet, her arms extended behind her and her head forward, looking down.

 

10.    Will you bring props to the environment?  If so, what will you include, how will you use and why are you using?

The only “props” will be the extra fabric attached to the wall, maybe pillows forming a barrier in the foreground that are draped in cloth to fully enclose the figure.

 

 

11.    Are you choosing to leave some areas exposed (this would be 5%)?  If so, state what body parts you selected and why.  

The cleavage/ chest area and the upper pelvic region will both be exposed, as those are the areas typically sexualized by viewers.

 

Theme #2     Surreal

 

1.      What material(s) will you use to wrap the body? May use more than one material. At least 95% of the body must be covered. Do not use materials that prohibit the model from breathing.

The body will be wrapped in black sheets, both whole and torn to wrap some regions of the body more tightly

 

2.      How is the color and texture of the material you selected significant to your theme?

Sheets are a material usually found in the bedroom, a space for dreams and complex thought which is an event which also happens in the bath. The black cloth communicate thoughts of darkness and dreams, the receded corners of the mind.

 

3.      How will you wrap the body? Loosely? Systematically? Combination? How is this important to your idea?

The body will be loosely bound in the cloth which will fall into the bath and spill over into the floor, all except the cloth wrapping around the arm which is suspended from the sky which will be loosely wrapped and exposed from the wrist up. This is the same way in which we can’t remember the parts of the dream except the focal point or focus of our dream, everything else is obscured and recedes into the darkness.

 

4.      Consider the pose of the model. Will viewer be able to recognize human form? Or will body blend in, be camouflaged in environment?

The model will be comfortably reclining in the bath, leaning against the tub with his left arm and head suspended from the ceiling/curtain bar. The head by a loose cloth and the hand by red ribbon/thin ribbons of black and his suspended hand will be grasping something.

 

5.      What site have you chosen? Site can be interior or exterior. Consider public spaces as long as you are not endangering anyone’s safety or damaging the area.

The site will be a bathtub.

 

 

6.      Why is the site significant? Consider how the colors, textures, shapes, lines that are present in the environment support your theme?

Bathtubs, like the bed, is a site of calm and often surreal contemplation. The bathtub acts as a basin which cradles the figure, reminiscent of a mothers embrace, comfortable and swaddling.

 

7.      When arranging the model and objects in the space, is it necessary to create a symmetrical arrangement? Asymmetrical? Why?

The figure will be relaxed and asymmetrically positioned, the arm leading to the focal point extended and the other draped over the edge of the tub and camouflaged into the sheets.

 

8.      How will you utilize space? Will you create a foreground, middle and background? Where will the model be placed and why?

There will be only a middle ground, the sheets leading into the foreground and the covered wall in the background. The action will occur in the middle ground.

 

9.      How will the wrapped body interact/be part of the chosen environment? Will the wrapped body be standing? Sitting? Crouched? Curled up? Limbs extended?

The figure will be suspended from the ceiling and within the tub, reclining against its edges.

 

 

10.    Will you bring props to the environment?  If so, what will you include, how will you use and why are you using?

There will be a small object in the figures hand that is mostly obscured and unrecognizable, a glass egg or a distorted skull. Representational of the way in which dreams distort our perception of the world around us.

 

11.    Are you choosing to leave some areas exposed (this would be 5%)?  If so, state what body parts you selected and why.  

Yes, the hand and the ribbons will have greater space between them leading up from the forearm, creating a focal point leading up to the hand. Alternatively this will be wrapped in red and connected to the strings suspended from the ceiling.

Initial Sketches

Social Commentary #1

Social Commentary #2

Surreal #1

Surreal #2