Lucy Mcrae's metallic skin

Metallic Skin from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

In the “Rojo Nova Work in Progress” exhibition at the Sao Paolo Museum of Image and Sound,  McRae is currently showcasing her unique perspective on the body.  In a statement, the museum stated that “her provocative and often grotesquely beautiful imagery suggests a new breed; a future human archetype existing in an alternate world.”  It is here that the point of the work of Macrae and other artists and designers featured on this blog becomes evident, it is possible that these creative images of various human archetypes can further our understanding of clusters of tendencies and possibilities for future growth and development, particular as the models visual stories are developed, their strengths and weaknesses studied.

Chlorophyll Skin

Chlorophyll Skin from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

An experimentation into color, movement, absorption and the body
A joint project by Lucy McRae and Mandy Smith

LucyandBart - Field Essays Publication

Field Essays Publication (Lucyandbart) from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

The publication Field Essays analyses how behaviour constantly shapes the ways, in which our body interacts with the world and vice versa. The absurd human enhancements of LucyandBart, which let the skin perform as an intimate interface with the material world, are presented alongside an essay by the Polish philosopher Marek Pokropski.

LucyandBart - elementary ideas with a new vision

LucyandBart.com
Lucy Macrae and Bart Hess

Discussions with S this week have forced my hand and I now have decided to invest my thoughts, images, energy in this diary. I have come to the realisation that make-up as art is an exciting point of debate for a blog. That the face should be a surface to explore, not just a surface to visually enhance for the casual eye is the remit. Finding evidence of these intrusions on the face and body will question the appropriateness of the convergence of make-up design and materials technology, and ask 'what will happen?'. The inability to anticipate end-use applications in advance is key to the dynamics of my enquiry. Anyway, who cares about the outcome, when the journey can be so delightful.

LucyandBart have appeared in my discussions with S, and by sheer coincidence we have referenced different projects but always the same artists/design duo. So here is my first posting, images that I had in my minds eye when I decided to commit to show and tell. And, thank you S.