Burqah and chips.

Digital peice excecuted on Windows Paint. The peice addresses the controversial nature of the Burkah which is seen as a political support of Sharia law in the west. I juxtoposed that most british of meals next to the full body covering. The title  also links to my current work about meat and power structures, meat being an intresting social signifier. The burqah  plays in the to the idea of a male dominated society dictating what women  do with their bodys, the chips also stand as a metaphor for the current critiscm about the ladette culture.One rarely sees the same disgust voiced about men and similer behaviour. I seek not to offer an opinion with this peice but more to raise discussion past the rhetoric.

from Gills numerous diarys.

“‘Bath and slept with Gladys,’ runs one entry in the diary. Such Gill family intimacies seem routine, a habit. A few weeks later there are more surprising entries; ‘Expt. [experiment] with dog in eve’ (the rest has been obliterated). Then, five days later, ‘Bath. Continued experiment with dog after and discovered that a dog will join with a man’” (Diaries, November 1, 1929, December 8, 1929, Eric Gill, MacCarthy, p.239).

i think this is too long to include in text art, but it serves to illuminate the genesis of the peice.

Next wood text painting. eric gill.

Of course we all know the bizarre life of Gill, the text will read in his own sans. ' Eric Gill distributed the family dog'

Google 'men' project.

screen capture, saved to hard drive, intention is to print out on to a3 laminted board.

Google digital project. Girl. parts 2-10

And my reason for doing this here
http://sundersartwork.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-stage-in-my-google-adjective.html
Please find my conclusion here
http://sundersartwork.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-girl-project-analysis.html#comments

First stage in my google adjective project. 1. Girl.

For this work i typed random adjectives in to google and recorded the results in a screen grab. I took the first ten pages that came up.
Google is intresting as a litmus test for what images people associatewith certain words and phrases. To quote Gibson in his excellent book  'Idoru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
 it's a 'nodal point'. A nodal point is a noticable fixed point in which popular culture converges and one can analyse trends, shifts in social behaviour.The semiologist  Saussre said
 'Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages'.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure

I will be making work on my findings, please find my thoughts about this project at this link .  thoughts.
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