As you
get older, your skin wrinkles becomes thinner and less elastic. It
gets drier as it makes less oil and sweat. Your bones become more visible
as you store less fat beneath your skin. Inside the body your bones and muscle
become weaker. Your memory gets worse, and your immune system cannot fight
disease as easily.
The Bag that you live in/through is getting worn out.
Inside the Bag you hide your feelings, fears, obsessions, hopes no-one can see inside the Bag, you are trapped in there, with your feelings.
For the exhibition for my Fine Arts degree Exhibition in 2016, working mainly with fabric and stitch, I constructed figures that asked questions about female experience with reference to the usual depiction of women in Art. These four figures explored the concept that as women age , they become less visible.
I called it "All about Eve"
It occurred to me that my life size figures were bags.
For my MA I am extending this theme to question more about the human body generally.
I am thinking of the body as a bag, one that encloses all that makes us human and interprets to us all that we perceive.
This bag ages and disintegrates although the person inside often claims they still feel young. Perhaps I will ask people just how young they "feel"
Inside the bag all our feelings, fears, hopes, dreams are hidden.
