"If you're not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original"

Thursday, September 13, 2012

whatever wigs and whatever other ideas i'm swirling around my head

I love the concept of "Water Wigs," and the idea of using the body as a canvas. I thought the choice of using bald men was clever so that the viewer was more able to conceptualize the water as the hair. The use of the triad of colors, thus how the photos are enhanced to take a simple action of dousing someone's head with a water balloon, make not only the idea - but the individual images themselves truly unique. The idea is ingenius, and the use of human models in art is exactly what I want to be doing for my first project. Rather than using a canvas to paint, I'm going to use people as my canvas. Focusing on the head and shoulders, I plan to paint scenes, or "twenty first century" tribal designs (it made more sense the way Smitty explained it) onto people. It's fair to say that at this point, before I'm too frustrated with paint, I cannot wait for my materials to come in! :)