'Tangled'

This series of photographs/digital manipulations are part of a visual documentation of my Hyper-Mobility-Disorder and aims to reflect upon and to narrate my personal journey through the emotional complications that have resulted from the condition.

As a child, I was teased for having a weird body and this caused a lot of trouble for me at school. Being labelled a Freak during those formative childhood years wasn't particularly pleasant. As a result of this, I became quite closed off from everyone else; forcing me into my own little world. I learned to find happiness there after a while; much of my joy came from climbing trees and sitting in them, staring up at the sky, at the sun and contemplating the wonders of the Universe! It was in these moments that I learned that even though I may look a little different compared to most, we are all share the same roots. I am proud of who and what I am and instead of seeing my physical 'disfigurements' as a negative thing, I have learned to use my abilities in a positive way!

The final image in my series seeks to illustrate this point; I finally manage to unravel myself from my self-entanglement and reach for the Sun, for the truth and hold my own destiny in the palm of my hands and realise the happiness that I seek and deserve. =D

The 'Tangled' series:

Exhibition

This series of images will be exhibited at the Boxxed Gallery in Digbeth, Birmingham, UK.

June 18th-24th.

Private view June 20th, 1800-2000. Please contact me directly if you would like to attend the private view =D

Entrance is free!

I will be displaying these images as part of a steel tree sculpture. Come and see! =D

Address:104 - 106

Floodgate Street B5 5SR

Birmingham, United Kingdom

T-Shirt Design

I have entered the final image from the series (I control my OWN destiny) into a competition at Threadless.com

Please feel free to follow the link and score the design! With enough votes, the design will be printed and available for you to purchase! =D

So, if you like it, go vote for it! =D

Charon

I had a bit of a play around with my digital SLR (Fujifilm FinePix S9500) the other night whilst listening to Keaton Henson. It would be fair to say that, beautiful as I find his music, it's a little on the melancholy side.

I found myself feeling rather sad whilst listening to 'Charon' in particular and decided to reflect the song through these images. I played around with the exposure/aperture settings.

I then tidied up the images on photoshop.

'And I don't feel well, Oh can't you tell from the way I touch my face?'

Check out the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZPnlMfMOzY

- A beautiful song and video =)

Indie Gallery

Woo! =D

Indie Gallery have finally approved my profile! Yay!

http://www.indiegallery.co.uk/artists/victoria-platt

Twiggy

This started out as a charcoal drawing of Twiggy...

It would appear I got somewhat carried away...

=D

The Lady

I was bored on a sunny afternoon at the start of my Easter holidays, so I sat in the garden and practiced drawing faces (something I've not been particularly successful with in the past!) I started off by drawing a model from an advertisement in 'Stylist Magazine', in order to get the basic features right. After that, I let my imagination and hands run wild. I'm quite pleased with the result! My drawing has definitely improved! =D

Trees

I have a life-long obsession with Trees. I find the forms that they take both beautiful and intriguing. I often take long walks and photograph the trees that I find along the way.

Tangled

Titian " The Three Ages Of Man" Modern Interpretation

For my first assessed project for the Fine Art module of the HND, I was instructed to find a Renaissance painting and transpose it into a modern context.

I chose to work on Titians' "The Three Ages Of Man"

I found the couple in this painting particularly interesting. The body language between them and how it represented the relationship between men and women in the time of Titian, in contrast to how we perceive the relationship between men and women in this day and age.

In Titians time, the role of the female was to be shy, demure and follow the males lead. This can be clearly observed in Titians depiction. Whereas, nowadays I believe that the gender roles have not only become more equal, but infact in many cases, we now find that women are the more dominant of the two sexes when it comes to the pursuit of relationships/sex. This, of course, is not true for every given case, but it is definitely an accepted norm in our modern society.