Sketchbook work.

Childrens hands

As I am also looking at children's hands, as child labour is very common in modern day slavery. Luckily my mother runs her own playschool for children aged 3-5 so I got the opportunity to go in for half an hour and with the parents permission photographs the children's hands. My mother also used this as a teaching opportunity for the children to show them that everyone has different hands, different skin colour and different fingerprints.

Stitching

I have started stitching into paper and other materials as I am currently researching sweatshops where hand stitched garments are the goods which are being produced as a result of modern day slavery. I'm really enjoying this process and think that the results are turning out good. I am hoping to stitch into silk screen prints next week as I have had technical difficulties this week and only have one layer of ink down. Im also stitching into drawings and using stitching as a method of drawing itself. Im currently stitching a lot of hands as I am still looking into hands as a body part and tool of labour and many case studies state that hands become very damaged from stitching all day long as they do in the sweatshops.

I also purchased a young boys tshirt from penneys. Penneys is known for using sweatshops to produce their clothing, regardless of what they say. I stitched an image of handcuffs onto the front of the boys shirt. I did it in a way that from a distance it looks like a smiley face but you then realise that they are shackles.

Casting

I made a cast of my hand in plaster last week, it turned out pretty successful as none of the fingers broke, which is very possible when casting hands as the area is so delicate. Im hoping to make more casts in the future, using different materials, hopefully wax & resin. I also want to immerse materials inside the cast aswell. More than likely the goods which are linked with slavery.