2002 "I used my breasts as the film plane wrapping a long strip of 35mm film all the way around my body"  

 

34d
2002

 

I used the female form as a surface rather than the direct visual subject. Most artist's use the female form and project the form onto a canvas whereas here I used my body as a canvas.

 

In relation to the photographic process of a camera, I used my breasts as the film plane wrapping a long strip of 35mm film all the way around my body. Due to the surface and form of my body, the film naturally bends and concaves therefore providing an uneven surface on which an image would distort and stretch around the contours of the female form.

 

I further developed the process in which I sat in a portable camera obscura and produced landscape images onto my body that wore the film. I choose to photograph the landscape due to the long panorama of the film around my body. Whilst working on this process, I began to realise that women have made little contribution to illuminating our relationship with our environment. In effect this could test the boundaries of a genre {Landscape photography} which has been dominated by male perspectives throughout its long history.

 

This work is illustrates the landscape as I experienced it. Due to this process, the images contain my embodiment. The film was wrapped around me containing my breathing form. The images contain my experience of being in that place of otherness and becoming one with over {long exposure} time.