Augmented Perfection; covering the skin

After looking at Karla Black's beautiful sculptural, tactile work, I was inspired to develop ideas and thoughts and think of some inspirational and unusually interesting photographs to transform my ideas from words into visuals.

I wanted to then develop my visual imagery into a resource that I (or other design teams) could use for initial influential trend indication. This will take the form of a trend book that will be usefully available to understand the tone and mood of the body of work.

I reflected on my list of words and verbs, which was something that I found useful as it meant that I could generate visual imagery that was not immediately (and obviously) associated with the theme of surgical modification and enhancement. I decided to start to consider ways that the skin could be covered, altered and modified with something that is obviously artificial and synthetic. I opted for using the hand as the subject and used a series of hyper-intense paints to cover the skin, using fluid and free moving liquid.

The natural movement of the fluid is juxtaposed with the super-bright artificiality of the paint. The turquoise blues, lime greens and cool greys contrast well against the more soft flesh tones of the skin.

 Working with these beautifully intense colours is something that I will carry throughout the project, which is taking a step outside of my comfort zone of neutrals, greys and accent tones.