Hair - A study of hair
- Hair loss - personal experience - reenact these experiences, using studio for medicine shots, hair shots. Close up of hair itself - Contact The Little Princess Trust and ask about their experiences, whether I can reenact them, either using models or themselves.
- Recreating images from writing - When I experienced hair loss I wrote a childlike story about it whilst it was happening, using some very descriptive language that has inspired how I recreated and reenact some of the experiences of mine. I have decided to finish writing it over summer so I can use it as a base to make work from. Not illustrating the writing but more being inspired by another form of creativity.
- Hair and texture - marco images of hair, looking at how it can be an abstract form even though its so prominent in society. Also looking at how both hair and the landscape mirror each other, their natural beauty, the shapes hair makes when it gets matted, sweep of a hill or wave.
- Hair and colour - Red heads are slowly dying out and my family are nearly all redhead, so I would be interested in looking into colour in hair and capturing this 'dying' race. However, it has been done before, many a time, by photographers such as Hanne van der Woude and Vivian Keulards. They both create work focuses on redheads as a beautiful dying race, and they believe they need to capture the extreme red colour before it becomes extinct.
Tara Bogart studied Felix Nadar's Hair Study image, recreating it in modern day, looking at how hair has changed over time and what actually consists of a hair study nowadays, in comparison to when Felix created his.
"By focusing on the back, the viewer is forced to contend with all of the peripheral things that make each woman unique."
Tara believes that the way young women 'adorn' and decorate themselves (through hair) can relate back to how they think, feel and want to be perceived. This relates back to feelings I've felt throughout my womanhood, where how I look means a great deal, and when losing my hair I felt more vulnerable to societies cruelties due to how important a head of hair can be on a women.
"By focusing on the back, the viewer is forced to contend with all of the peripheral things that make each woman unique."
Tara believes that the way young women 'adorn' and decorate themselves (through hair) can relate back to how they think, feel and want to be perceived. This relates back to feelings I've felt throughout my womanhood, where how I look means a great deal, and when losing my hair I felt more vulnerable to societies cruelties due to how important a head of hair can be on a women.
I want to look into both these ideas to start with, developing whichever is more successful as the project goes on. The idea behind the hair loss comes from personal experience of hair loss, and how I overcame it. I would like to create a project about this as I feel that my work doesn't have as much substance if it doesn't connect back to me in some way, the work feels as though its pointless unless I'm making it for myself.