Elizabeth Hughes Post 6

Thanksgiving break gave me a nice few days to figure out where I wanted this work to go. Its starting to feel like its done. And though the ending I've devised is somewhat depressing, it needs to be. These past two weeks have been rather hard for many reasons, but most especially because my memory has started to fade. It comes only visually now with none of the accompanying emotions or physical memories. I'll be honest and say I panicked the first couple of days I started to notice, but I've been here before and know its just what happens. It also makes this project more important to me. And its important that I try to show what exactly is happening. Memory fades. It is an impermanent solution to this problem, as I simply have to work with that and record it as it happens.

Here are a few images of what I've been doing.

 

It may be too early to say this is the end, but it certainly feels like it. There is of course the presentation to think about and I know that will take quite some time to work on and complete (probably most of next semester). Additionally, I'm doing a costume shop practicum in which I design and construct a body of costumes that will compliment (physically and conceptually) my work. Though the concepts are tied more closely to the prints I've been doing this semester, the feelings and abstract fears they describe are the same ones I address here, so Its possible I might be able to show them with this work if enough of it is complete by the judging time. That's a future idea though. But, for your own interest, here are my proposal sketches for that collection.