Melanie Crawford
Bachelor of Art Education
Shadows and Delusions - 2012
“The competitive life is a lonely one and its satisfactions short-lived, for each race only leads to a new one” (Slater, 1970, p. 9). Shadows and Delusions is about body image, beauty and consumerism. It is about the harsh realities and the warped ideas our society has about 'the body beautiful'. This installation is a sculptural piece made from earphones. While it rotates there are voices if you lean in close to the earphones, these represent our own inner monologue influenced by ideals in advertising, social and mass media and heightened by our perceptions of self. The projected video takes on female body shapes abstracted with and morphing as the sculpture rotates.