I'm now approaching the very end of my A2 ESA with only a few weeks left before my final exams. I've always been intrigued by dreams and the qualities of these, and my work for my ESA "Growth and Evolution" is based around this. After looking at literature such as Hamlet and Great Expectations I began to look at how dreams can break, and how this can change the way a person grows as well as how these dreams themselves then evolve.
My mock final piece is a dress printed on inspired by the way Miss Havisham never removes her wedding gown, her evolution as a person apparently halted in this limbo between turning from a Miss to a Mrs. I love working with material, with the fragility of this and the way it can so easily be manipulated. For this I have used a second hand dress, editing this by adding more material, printed on and stained. Inspired by the way pain can evolve into something seemingly serene, like bodies preserved in ice or bogs that now are almost sculptural, I photographed my work at the Bronte Falls in Yorkshire.
This is a beautiful place just over two miles out of the small village of Haworth, home of the Bronte's. On the dress is the printed the poem 'Night' written by Anne Bronte. The material of the dress in the water looked beautiful, and almost sculptural like the preserved bodies, and extremely serene and calm.
