This piece was based on the work of artist Paddy Hartley. His work portrays the facial reconstruction given to soldiers during the First World War; it was one of the first forms of what we know today as: plastic surgery.
He uses this muse to create facial corsets; these corsets which are Hartley's way of portraying the reconstructive surgery these soldiers undertook. His does both 2D and 3D interpretations of these.
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Taking Hartley's work for inspiration, I then created my own 2D interpretation of these facial corsets. I used Photoshop to split the original image into four parts and used a different filter on each of the four sections; after printing these four sections, I then stitched them together, mimicking Hartley's work. Once this was attached to a black background, I applied fabric and sellotape transfers of both text and images; to produce my own variation of Hartley's work.
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