Still thinking about the desire of keeping the shape of the unity with the supportive objects I photographed last time, and the idea of blob, I suddenly thought of using cling film to wrap the objects and the body to form a visual unity and also achieve a better effect of blob. Cling film tells the clingy characteristic of the self in a “relationship” which eventually causes too much pressure to other and drives other away. The wrap reminded me of my previous performance project Futility and also its inspiration:
L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse
Then it reminded me of my reading about a fashion design. I remember it talks about how it sees accessories as part of body. It should be about the show Lumps and Bumps.
“The Clothes could be the body and the body could be the clothes” – Rei Kawakubo
https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/8174/lumps-and-bumps-at-comme-des-garcons-s-s97
There’re designs called “object/subject”.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/lumps-bumps-avant-garde-designer-rei-kawakubo/
It inspires me of wrapping body and chair together further.
With the use of cling film, I decided to have the body on the objects using them normally because it’s the original unity it wanted to keep.
I thought about removing the objects in the unity shapes but I didn’t think it’s obvious enough to tell what the objects are. With objects in presence, it shows the desire of not letting go of the support, the rejection of separation, and the result of disabling the function of the body.
I thought about if I should let the body hold the cling film to show it’s the body’s intention of this wrap. But I feel it’s too aggressive and powerful. There’s a conflict between the natural desire and the knowledge of its futility. The nature wins over in this situation in some degrees. But the result still shows the state of being stuck. It also shows the body cannot become a subject/self this way.
Eva Wang 