Week 10

Week 10

5^th October – 9^th October

Another thing I found fascinating is how the prisoners were stripped of their names, families and homes but they were given one identifying marker back. A number was tattooed onto them like cattle, this I found really interesting as I also had a number but in a completely different context. My student number is a big part of my university life and I wanted to try and see how I could try and change my situation to match that of a prisoner but not in a prison paradigm. I experimented with writing the number on my arm as an identifying feature, but it kept rubbing off. I then thought back to my dismantled self-portraits and wanted to try and make up one of my lost features with this number so even thought they were not actually there the number would be a representation of my once identifying feature, which now means nothing, but the repeated number has a link to my identity. I thought the glasses came out very well actually they were eerie and captured what I wanted them too. I could imagine doing them in a much larger scale and developing that idea further. Using metals for the numbers and having them as like sculptures hanging in a gallery space. I could recreate different features all out of the one key number and together they would

create and identity of a person, who could not be made whole without each piece fitting together.