Thursday, 8 January 2015

NAUGHTY DOCTORS


As a result of my research I looked into the mental health wards airport more hospital during the years of which Jimmy Saville was helping out on the ward. I wanted to look into the white coat specifically as we see it as a blanket of trust. Doctors hold our lives in their hands essentially, so for this kind of issue to happen it's quite destructive of that trust. This is why I decided to play around with the white jacket and deconstruct it and see what unique shapes I can come up with. It was quite interesting actually because when I deconstructed the coats, it made the doctors look like scary aliens. The same thing I imagine would've been felt by the girls being attacked by Jimmy. 

I then designed from my favourite shapes that I created. I really did like the designs I produced however I don't feel like that was the right avenue to go down in order to design from to truly answer the victims the plea justice. I feel like I just bought up really bad memories for them. 

This was a slight setback as I didn't really want to use these ideas for further for development as they felt tainted. 

This process wasn't totally wasted though. I thought of looking into the physical act of rape and watched a few interviews with his victims and how they felt during and after the whole incident happened. One woman quoted to have felt constantly suffocated and strangled after as she couldn't be herself and feel at ease. Looking back through my designs, I got a sense of construction and lack of comfort due to the controlled shapes and placements. So I'll be taking them through to development in a different sense of displaying a struggle. 

No comments:

Post a Comment