What happens during a kiss?

So since i have been reseaching kissing my ideas had moved pretty much everywhere. I am now going to much a 3D latex mouth and show what happens during a kiss.
Although i am very interested in what happens behide the tongue, spit and lips. Why do we kiss certain people, like, someone can be more goodlooking than someone else but you kiss the less goodlooking fella. We normaly end up fancying someone we kiss and getting attached to them. I have now been researching about kissing and have found out a few interesting facts that have inspired me.

Where we kiss, how we kiss and who we kiss affect the this moment between two people. . `Pheromones are chemicals we smell and this initiates attraction,' says Phillip Hodson, psychotherapist and co-author of How to Make Great Love to a Man (pounds 16.95, Robson Books). ` The first stage is smell. Smell is also the first of the five senses that affect the kiss, it attracts us to the person we kiss. 
Our skin is the next, our lips are more sensitive than the rest of our skin. This means there are more nerves in our lips making kissing more exciting and enjoyable. 
Stage 3, The brain. Our brain has a large area that is dedicated to the movement of our lips and tongue making kissing very loved.
Stage 4, The moment your lips meet is often described as `electric', and that's exactly what it is. Studies using electrodes on people's lips during a kiss showed electric currents flowing along the nerves from the brain to all of the 34 facial muscles. Hence, those tingly sensations.
Stage 5, The more intense a kiss get the salvia gland produces more salvia. This is natures way of cleaning ones mouth as it brings the plaque levels down. So basically...we need to kiss more.
Stage 6, hormones. In exactly the same way as drinking alcohol, kissing stimulates the primitive part of the brain involved in automated functions (the four Fs: feeding, fighting, flight and, ehhhh MATING). `As you kiss, signals received by nerve endings in the lips are sent to the limbic system, which releases hormones that tell the pituitary glands to produce gonadotrophin. This hormone attaches itself to the ovaries, causing the release of oestrogen and testosterone, which increase sexual excitement,' says Dr Scholey. Another hormone released now is oxytocin - the bonding hormone. It is also secreted during breastfeeding and orgasm, and promotes caring feelings towards your partner or baby.
Stage 7, HAWT STUFF. Your blood pressure increases during a kiss. Your blood comes to the surface making you hot. Your blood pressure is 60-80 at rest but during a intense kiss it passes 100.
Stage 8, The kiss has reached its peak and your body is working mover to stop you going to bed with the smelly boy you're kissing.  `Your body rewards itself for reproducing, so it makes you feel nice by releasing the neurotransmitter dopamine into the brain, which intensifies your desire so you crave more,' says Dr Hodson. 
Stage 9, FINALLY after a good oul shift the natural  amphetamine phenylethylamine (thank god for copy and paste) is released. These are also in chocolate which makes you fall in love and can give you 'butterflys'. Now when your out partying in Dolans or Bakers and get the shift you can think of this ;) 

shift my friend?

3D Kissing

Today i had a talk with my tutor and we were talking about how to develop my idea. I decided i needed to move on from the 2D work and move to 3D. I am also going to research what happens during a kiss and the feeling and sound. I've been reseaching artists and came across a artist called Lou Krueger and fell in love with him. 

One of his pieces, 'The French Kiss', is what i had pictured in my head when i was talking to my tutor about my project on kissing. 

I am hoping to make a piece like this but have the lips of the two mouths touching and then halfed so that we can see what happens during a kiss.

Tonight everybody is going out so i am hoping to get two of my friends (who are a couple) to kiss while i video record them. I am then going to snapshot the video and slow it down and study the shape and what is going on between the couple.

What Katie Boner done today

Today i have just been printing pictures out of the different shapes of people kissing and looking at different artists that have work on kisses and silhouettes. I have also started on more room size silhouettes and i am hoping to have a room full of silhouettes by friday. 

My notebook naw has small black silhouettes and silhouettes made out of paper and pastel. The pictures I've printed out where put into my note and i also put note beside them saying why i have choose those pictures. 

Silhouettes

I choose to do silhouettes because they make your eye look at the shape instead of the detail. I am really enjoying making them and blogging about it. Please comment and give me feed back...good or bad. I dont care :) Thanks

Cut out kissing :)

Today i tried cutting out the shape of people kissing on a black A2 piece of paper. It was a very interesting shape and did not look like people kissing what so ever.

Girl and boy kissing

I choose this image because it has a werid shape and you may have to look at the silhouette for a while to see what it is. 

Sorry

I'm sorry about the spelling mistakes in the last few posts. My spell check has broken...a dyslexics worst nightmare!

Kissing Shapes

Today i am researching on how images like the one below,

Are more posed compared to the images you would get if you took a picture of your friends kissing in a nightclub like the image below,

Both of these pictures are of people kissing but the first image is much more nice too look at and it also makes a much more interesting shape.

I am now working on another silhouette with a different shape. It will also be bigger than the first room size silhouette. 

The shape of the way people kiss

Last night i got off my ass and started on my room size silhouette, and i love it. It came out the way i wanted to and i cant wait to go and get more black paper and start more. 

I also had my tutoril on Friday and one of the girls in my class thought i should video two of my friends kissing and snapshot each move. We also thought i should look into the way different age groups kiss and how they're shapes would all be different. For example the pictures on the internet are all posed but if we look at two young people kissing in a club it would be more unflattering. 

I cant wait to get started on this part of my project.

Some of the work in my sketch book

what the room size  piece started off like.

The finished piece :)

For this silhouette i made a setting that captures the mood of the couple

The Shift

So I have changed my idea...AGAIN! I'm back to the kissing. I went back to the kissing because it was more interesting and fun than viruses. 

Kara Walker is an artist that has inspired me as she is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. 

I am now working on silhouettes of the shape that is created during a kiss. I started off with small black silhouettes and as i went along i have made them bigger. i am aiming to have them like Kara Walker's room size silhouettes but I'm going to put a twist on it and add a hint of colour or different patterns just like 'The Kiss' by Gustav Klimt.

'The Kiss'

I love the shape of this kiss.

i found this piece of work very interesting. i love it!!