As I have to take down my studio work later on this week, I thought I'd include some photos of my current space as I feel that it reflects the work I have been producing, and the images that have inspired me during Unit X

 

I have been experimenting with what I will be using during my performance piece as blood to stain some shirts. Fake blood left a pink stain, whereas red food colouring left a more realistic effect. I experimented this idea on cotton that replicates the fabric used to make the average shirt.

 

 

 

I have collected a few things for my piece such as a large bucket, dozens of white men's shirts and a red floor length sheer dress to wear. My performance will be spontaneous, I have no need to announce it on a flyer I feel. I will randomly walk in during our exhibition night to my bucket and shirts set up on the floor and start washing the shirts. I have come up with a way of hiding capsules of food colouring within the shirts after coming up with various methods. I have filled numerous water balloons with food colouring and will pierce them with a pin so that they spurt all over the shirts and myself. I hope this provides the audience with a shock factor. Slowly the shirts will get more and more drenched in 'blood' and I will get more and more vigorous and agitated with the fact I am not making these shirts any cleaner. I will eventually stand up and collect the shirts together, then kick them into the audience to defiantly clear my way out of the performance, breaking the fourth wall. The remnants of the performance will lie as a sculptural piece for the rest of the exhibition.

The title of this piece is 'The Fallen Woman' and links back to my earlier research into the Magdalene Laundries' and views of promiscuous women. The blood symbolises how my actions 'stain' the men I have come across and I can't wash this away.