Claire Morgan has reated many captivating installation pieces, mostly they consist of thousands of  a partiular object, in some pieces she uses strawberries or feathers an these are suspened in the air, they look as though they are just hovering in the air. Each piece has a certain delicacy about it, as there are so many components to each installation and the repetative style recontextualises each part.

deconstructed drawing

Deconstructed drawing.
I cut out each individual soldier and used the negative space as th shadow following them..

Wise old owl poem

Wise old owl lived in an oak the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard, soldiers should imitate that old bird.

Tea bags and wax skin samples

I wanted to make my idea seem less human, and zoom in more to the parts of the skin around the more dominent facial features. Here I have used teabags and wax, then stitched on the surface making french knots to look as though the parts of the skin are just about attached, linked together by something very delicate.

Transfer prints of WW1 soldiers faces

Images using transger printing and machine stitch,showing a close-up of the marks of the faces.

Sketchbook samples

Samples from my sketchbook, looking at the marks of the skin and subtle hints of colour.

Varying scale drawings

A selection of images from a drawing workshop,exploring scale of image. I decided to draw from an image of a sample of french knots.

Large scale drawing pictures

Here are some images of my big drawing, I decided to use fine liner and make a continuious line darwing of the soldiers on a journey.

ImperialWar Museum Pictures, medicine section

 Above are several artificial limbs from the Imperial War museum.

Here is one of the masks, this one must have been used by a soldiers with an eye injury.

World War One soldiers research

These soldiers have been my main inspiraton for this project

The Great War marked a turning porint in plastic surgery, these types had injuries had rarely been seen before and so people were shocked with how there men looked returning home from battle. Many ways were researched in creating small moulds of skin-like masks that these soldiers wore each day to cover their injuries.

Paddy Heartley research

This project has been very much inspired by a particular Artist called Paddy Hartley,intially I was interested in the way he combines text and image. Although from researching his work further It gave me further inspiration for his apprection for the different shapes he could create with the human face. I wanted in my own work to explore the distorted marks left on the soldiers faces from battle and see how I could interpret this idea in my own work.

Sketchbook work from Imperial War Museum

Some observational drawings i did in my sketchbook when at the Museum

Some more images, but I felt that these images best related to my project. Here I found the medical section, the images show some of the medicines and leg splints that would have been used during the time of the Great War. Here there is some sketchbook work exploring line drawing from observing the images i took at the museum of the medical equipment.

Imperial War Museum North pictures

The Imperial War Museum North

A selection of images I photographed at the museum, I then drew some of these objects from observation in my sketchbook.