Sacrifice

After completing my alter and offering table I decided to create one final video to tie up the idea of sacrifice and  celebrity worship. This video is a satrical take on xfactors imact on celebrity worship and the idea of ritual sacrifce in the form of an xfactor winner to appease them. The offerings in the last section all contribute to the X factor. The video is entitled Sacrifice

Final pictures of project.

offerings.

I decided to use offerings of money which represents the greed of the judges and their overwhelming desire for money. I decided to also use an offering of ashes to represent sacrifice and the giving of the person body and soul to simon cowells management. Also Ive used red lipstick to reference sexuality and status of sex symbol, sex sells. Finally Ive used feathers for an offering of innocence which is snatched up byu the industry The feathers are fragile and light

Celebrity worship and sacrifise.

I felt as if something was missing from my instillation and I was suddenly struck by the god like quality my judges had shown. I felt I could continue with the themes I had already been working on of african tribal decoration. I decided to create an alter with unique offerings in primitive, aged bowls. I decided to make two bowls and an urn. They would be made with red clay and decorated with white slip. The bowls would have an aged apearence being broken in places and cracked.
I used coiling to make the two bowls and slab work to make the urn and plate. To create the broken look I broke coiled bits off each pot and piece.

Ceramic lo-fi construction.

Upon completing the cardboard pieces I set about recreating them in clay form. I decided to use flat slabs and as a result made good use of the slab roller. In keeping with the now emerging african look my work has undertaken I experimented with red clay and white slips and white clay and red slips for decoration. I constructed each animal using flat slabs of clay while creating bits to stick on later. The clay pieces were then decorated with red and white clay slips before being fired in the kilin.

After completing the pieces and retrieving them from the killin I noticed they seemed pretty flat and lifeless looking and decided to add splashes of colour as id already seen in a book on african tribal face painting. The earthy colours bring the pieces to life. I also decided to add tribal markings and designs to them.

These splashes of colour as seen above brought the pieces new life. They were then fired and when completed the aditional pieces were attatched via gluegun.