Laura Yule
From the work Laura Yule showed us in the lecture I seen that a lot of her work uses specific materials like, pebbles, electrical appliances and manikins. There also seems to be an occurring theme with Laura's work which is the idea of how we are becoming too dependent on electrical appliances and social media.
The first project Laura spoke about was her on going work with pebble dashing. Firstly focusing on our dependence on everyday electronic devices, she showed an installation of appliances she found and managed to get for free at junk yards such as a Samsung television and fridges that she then pebble dashed almost freezing these appliances. Laura thought about how we use these appliances in how she positioned them. From this project Yule made a bigger series using the same techniques and thoughts. This time she made commercial homes, using manikins, furniture and once again electronic devices. When installing these pieces she really focused on how commercial homes are set out, trying to sell these items and highlighting the importance of having these items. Once again Laura pebble dashed all of her materials, creating an interesting effect from the initial set up of the installation.
Aside from this project there where a couple of other works that had a great link, which happened to be the use of skin cells. These ideas first began with Laura going to the laundry room in her flat building and taking the lint from all of the machines which she then used to cover manicans, playing on the idea of making the skin on these manikins which are basically fake people out of this lint containing peoples skin cells. Like manikins aren't creepy enough already.
Furthering from this idea of using dirt that could possibly contain strangers excess skin cells, Laura began collecting the dust from a local shopping centre, which she then used to make soap. Playing with the idea of having dirt in something that is typically meant to be clean. From this she then made manicans out of this dirty soap, once again making a fake person out of possibly excess skin cells. She later left this outside, which did decompose over time. Yule spoke about how she found this interesting watching it crack and certain parts of the manikin falling off in the environment.
I found Laura's work quite interesting and each of her projects I'v spoke about in this blog I was intrigued by but for different reasons. The first project I found the use of her different elements fascinating due to the contrast of these electrical man-made devices being covered in pebbles a natural source. This then leads me to think about the different backgrounds of these objects, for instance the man-made objects would be found in factories or shops which are typically stressful environments whereas the pebbles I think would be found in places like rivers and beaches which I relate with a clam and peaceful environment and putting these two different environments and motions together can have an interesting effect on an audience, causing people to have different ideas of what the piece is. Which I then find links into my own practice and interest's of having work and its meanings depend on the audiences. With the second series of work I spoke about, I found the manikins made from the soap and dirt found in the shopping centre and then decomposing outside interesting due to the idea of almost repeating the the initial action of peoples excess skin cells falling of their body to be in the dirt found on the shopping centre floor to then make the skin of a fake human being. Almost playing with the thought of the circle of life. Overall I liked Laura's work it made me think deeper into the use of her materials rather then just how it looks.
The first project Laura spoke about was her on going work with pebble dashing. Firstly focusing on our dependence on everyday electronic devices, she showed an installation of appliances she found and managed to get for free at junk yards such as a Samsung television and fridges that she then pebble dashed almost freezing these appliances. Laura thought about how we use these appliances in how she positioned them. From this project Yule made a bigger series using the same techniques and thoughts. This time she made commercial homes, using manikins, furniture and once again electronic devices. When installing these pieces she really focused on how commercial homes are set out, trying to sell these items and highlighting the importance of having these items. Once again Laura pebble dashed all of her materials, creating an interesting effect from the initial set up of the installation.
Aside from this project there where a couple of other works that had a great link, which happened to be the use of skin cells. These ideas first began with Laura going to the laundry room in her flat building and taking the lint from all of the machines which she then used to cover manicans, playing on the idea of making the skin on these manikins which are basically fake people out of this lint containing peoples skin cells. Like manikins aren't creepy enough already.Furthering from this idea of using dirt that could possibly contain strangers excess skin cells, Laura began collecting the dust from a local shopping centre, which she then used to make soap. Playing with the idea of having dirt in something that is typically meant to be clean. From this she then made manicans out of this dirty soap, once again making a fake person out of possibly excess skin cells. She later left this outside, which did decompose over time. Yule spoke about how she found this interesting watching it crack and certain parts of the manikin falling off in the environment.
I found Laura's work quite interesting and each of her projects I'v spoke about in this blog I was intrigued by but for different reasons. The first project I found the use of her different elements fascinating due to the contrast of these electrical man-made devices being covered in pebbles a natural source. This then leads me to think about the different backgrounds of these objects, for instance the man-made objects would be found in factories or shops which are typically stressful environments whereas the pebbles I think would be found in places like rivers and beaches which I relate with a clam and peaceful environment and putting these two different environments and motions together can have an interesting effect on an audience, causing people to have different ideas of what the piece is. Which I then find links into my own practice and interest's of having work and its meanings depend on the audiences. With the second series of work I spoke about, I found the manikins made from the soap and dirt found in the shopping centre and then decomposing outside interesting due to the idea of almost repeating the the initial action of peoples excess skin cells falling of their body to be in the dirt found on the shopping centre floor to then make the skin of a fake human being. Almost playing with the thought of the circle of life. Overall I liked Laura's work it made me think deeper into the use of her materials rather then just how it looks.
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