CHLOE ROSE WILTSHIRE

This was my sculptural take on a painting, made with latex, synthetic wigs and hair dye. My initial ideas came from responding to artificial relationships with reguards to mother an child. It was my intention to state that the hair being synthetic signifies a relationship which is through force or maybe because the relationship between mother and child is what society dictates and that relationship is fundimental to remain untainted in the sense that the mother is more important than the child. If the relationship becomes fractured, it is reflected badly upon the mother if the child is seen to misbehave or develop an underlying psychological condition.

By using synthetic materials within this painting reitterates how we cover up any 'unormal' behaviours between immediate relatives due to expectations of society.  

I have responded to the Adonis Complex, which is apparent in men & boys, it is to do with self confidence issues and how apparence wise men are effected as much as women, I've looked into the hair loss aspects of the theory and have ultimatley reversed it to fit motherly figures, which would lead me on to discuss the role reversals I discovered in Charles Dickens' 'Great Expectations' when looking into Miss Havisham and her use of 'play' as actions and the way Dickens chooses to use it in a somewhat perverse manor when refering to Miss Havisham and the children within 'Great Expectations'. For example, ‘I sometimes have sick fancies,’ she went on, ‘and I have a sick fancy I want to see some play’ (Dickens 1861 p55). This piece too looks upon the falsness of the relationship between Miss Havisham as a motherly figure and her neice, 'ESTELLA' who she has brought up as her own.