SomeBody, invisible

     When you turn the giant page over from the 'bramble' page to this one at first there is nothing to be seen, just red organza pages with a hint of the yellow fat layer behind. The stab wounds are clear but the rest is uncertain; with clever lighting a face and waving hand is revealed. This is the last of  three overlapping emotional states that are illustrated within SomeBody.

   

   It is easy to overlook people and their experiences especially if their lives are so different to ours. We may only see what we want to see. When young people feel isolated they can feel invisible in society or that their problems are invisible.  This feeling and similar ones can run concurrently inside us with those of emotional pain, loss and helplessness.

Ghost embroidered panel in progress

    

 I chose to do a simple (!) line drawing of a face and hand which was then embroidered onto one layer of silk and then overlaid with more silk organza. Once inside the 'body' it lays against the muscle and fat layers obscuring it.

   

 

   The reds are chosen deliberately to seem deep inside the body itself but the next page changes completely and looks at physical scenarios and their consequences.

next: the puppet