Developing ideas...

I am trying to do what's been suggested and work further into an idea, to get my practice up to speed with my theoretical/critical thinking. I think its actually going well, i've been focused on the 'makeup girls' performance video and moving the idea forward as i spoke about in my last post 'Naked Women'. I've also been looking at filming the women just putting on lipstick, lipstick is a very sexual and womanly piece of makeup, its the actual putting it on that i believe is a very seductive act, plus the gloss, the sheen on the lips, the lips also being a very sensual part of the body. I am also editing down the 'Makeup women' so that it is divided up into a different woman putting on a different piece of makeup, i'm thinking of dividing it and putting in order of age, the youngest appearing first, wearing the least makeup and later the eldest with the most, there is obviously a lot here about how beauty is also defined by youth.

'Naked women'

Have been developing the multi screen 'Makeup girls' piece, am now in process of filming these women 'naked faced' (without makeup). I am shooting close up, focused just on their unmade faces, filming them looking to camera for 4 minutes (as in Warhols 'Screen tests). They are like moving photographs, tiny movement, blinking, swallowing, tiny twitching eye movements(also see: Gillian wearing '60 minute silence') I'm trying to capture some kind of exposure that may be felt by the woman (just as a successful photograph might), unable to mask herself with her makeup, an emotion, a vulnerability of being filmed, looked at for a period of time longer than that snapshot of a photograph, the uncomfortable gaze, from each woman.