Teacup

I started looking at the way I was presenting my work, I liked how it was very archival but that wasn't exactly what I was trying to say with my work . So I started to think about the opposite of the way if  was presenting it . I went through many things like old medicine bottles,similar to Damien Hirst in 'Pharmacy' and the objects falling out of them. Then somehow I came to tea cups and china cups and it all seemed to fit into place. I went to a charity shop and got china cups and saucers in a set. I then glued the the saucers to the cups, I put my different pieces of crab and prawns.

I was researching artists like Robert Lazzarini who warped a tea cup and saucer to confuse peoples view of perception. I was also looking  Meret Oppenheim who covered a tea cup in hair and made it very impractical. 

I was trying to find a relation to my work in these artists, seeing how they developed their ideas and how they got to where they were. I wanted to create something that fitted together as a whole but were perfect separate also. I thought the teacup fitted this description.

Damien Hirst 'Pharmacy'

Robert Lazzarini

Meret Oppenheim