Nets, Nets and More Nets

These nets are my favorite thing at the moment. I am now finally enjoying myself in college and getting excited to go in every morning. 

I started of with looking at fishing and making nets then ended up using this wonderful copper/blue voile material. I am now looking at the shape of them. Tomorrow i am getting the nets and wrapping them around peoples bodies. I also want to study how the light shines off the fabric.

Project

My project had now developed into the death at the sea. I live on the coast so there's a lot of disasters that happened near me. A few of my relations were also killed in them. I will be talking about them in a different post.

I went down to a island close to me called Cruit Island. (Of the west of donegal) I went down wanting to make a body out of seaweed. I started off by making a body that looked like it was lying  in a coffin. I choose seaweed as it is very easy to get tangled in and if you get washed up on the shore it is likely you will be cover in seaweed. 

I really like this photo. I don't know why but it makes me feel quite disturb. 

I placed the body here because the tied was just after going out so it makes it look it was only lying there for a hour or so.

Me making the body!

Surpriseingly it took ages to make this!!

The crawling body

I love this one because its crawling to the shore for help. I wanted the body to be more 'real' looking but I like the way this turned out because you have to look at it for a bit longer to see what it really is and really doing. 

The body!

Fishermen, the Donegal coast and creatures

So I am finally starting my summer project! I have had the busiest summer yet, I represented donegal in the mary from dungloe international festival and the amount of work put in for that was unreal. I also work full time in the summer as a prep chef in the lobster pot in burtonport. So really I have no time at all to do this project but I'm trying to fit it in before I head to work.

Anyway my project is going to be about the coast of donegal and what the fishermen went trough when fishing was booming in donegal. 

I done a lot of research all ready about fishermen and the coast but I'm also looking at the sea creatures. I started collecting the shells from work and looking at the fish and shellfish in detail. I never released how much detail could be in one prawn or the patterns there in on oyster shells. I have gotten so interested in this I just wish I had more time to do it! 

I hope to make something with the pattern in this oyster!!

These mussel shells remind me of butterfly's I NEED to do something with them it would be a shame not to.

Busy Busy Summer!!

Sorry i haven't blog in a while but i am the most busiest person ever this summer! I am working 6 days a week and I'm just back from Santa Ponsa. Best holiday of my life. I also got picked to be the Donegal Mary for the Mary from Dungloe. So that's another week taken up. I'm starting to worry now about my summer project :/ 

My Summer project can basically be anything and im doing my about the beach/westcoast of Donegal because i love it and live there. I also work in The Lobster Pot a seafood restaurant in Burtonport and i'm collecting a load of shells and lobsters from there so i can work with them.

I am hopefully going down the beach in a minute if Dad is about because its a horrible day so i might be able to find some interesting things.

Cone Mask

This is the 3rd mask and final mask i made. It is made out of card and has a strap on the back to attach to the head.

It covers the issues protection and concealment.

I love the way these photos turned out and i love the first picture.

Pin Mask.

I loved the way this mask has turned out, simple and plain. This was a dust mask but i wanted to improve the protecting so i did by at pins to it. I just done a line down the centre as i wanted to keep it simple yet effective. 

Face Helmet

This is a FACE HELMET!  This is a sculpture that fixs to the body. It protects the face and supports the head. It is made from cardboard. I painted it white but it was very plain looking so i got black paint and put some on. It looks alot better. I also made the chin piece with a cushion on it for comfort.