Silk Screen

Next brief was either 'Protest' or 'Humour'. I decided to go with protest. I wanted to stick with a similar theme from when I was working on photography. I wanted to look further in to the topic of abuse and violence against children.

From my research on protest against clerical abuse, I came across a protest where people tied babies shoes to a railing. I felt that working with clothes would be very effective in making an impact.

I started working with various compositions - some were more complicated than necessary!!

Here is a collage I made to imply a washing line. I put in a priest's rope and daises (symbol of innocence).


Here is the final image I decided to work with. I wanted the clothes to appear ragged and torn to imply the abuse that occurred. I read various survivors' personal experiences and thoughts and used their names and ages of when the abuse occurred, and put these on the items of clothing.

On the top right hand side I wrote the name 'Brendan Age 46' - to imply Fr. Brendan Smith who committed awful acts of abuse for a long period while in a position of trust and authority.

I drew the images onto MRPVC with a light fast marker, and exposed the images onto a screen for printing.

I printed various layers, light blue background, pink for the top and dress, green for the babygrow and a section of the dress, darker blue for the dungarees and yellow for the pegs and design on the top.

 

Finally I again exposed the outline onto a screen for printing. I printed this in black on top of the image.

 

 

 

I printed a repeated pattern on newsprint. I thought the dungarees were really cute