Experimenting with lighting

As I wanted to develop my idea of suspending the latex body parts within a dark room, only highlighting the body parts which would allow the subject and the audience to view the 'inner glow' that the subjects still have, no matter how they see themselves and feel towards their dissatisfied bodies.

 

With suspending the latex body parts around 60cm away from the wall, the LED lights were on show which I thought could be a distraction to the viewer, with most of the room now being lit which wasn't my initial idea.

 

 

Because of this I pushed the body parts closer to the wall, making the room even darker and the pieces more enhanced revealing details of ones body.

 

With the room being dark and only the body parts lit up, with a sense of distortion, it almost made the pieces look somewhat grotesque with some of  them even moving and wobbling when people walked in the room.  

 

LED lights on show, latex sculptures suspended away from the wall  

 

 

Torso - Subject unhappy with Stomach area

LED - Dim lights

 Bright LED lights

 

 

 

Feet covering Dim Led light - Subject Dislikes Toe

 

 

 

The feet worked extremely well, being stuck on to the LED lights and attached to the wall themselves. This was my favourite piece out of each of the body parts and one which I did not have any trouble with the lights.

The strip lights used within each of the legs were too heavy for the magnets and fell from the wall a few times, resulting in some of them to break.
If I were to use lighting within my work again, I would definitely consider using electrical lights as I feel this has been the main problem for this piece, having to check on the lights daily and changing batteries.

 

 

Torso - Dim light - subject dislikes Breast Area

 

Torso - Dim light - subject dislikes Stomach

 

 

 

Two pairs of legs, one lit fully the other slightly dimmer

 

 

 

 

 All photographs have come out a lot darker compared to what they were like in person.