Tears are a liquid material produced by humans and animals at times of distress, emotional crisis and extreme pain. They are the embodiment of a broken-down mental state. In my work they feature as a representative of "mental regression", the crushed state of a human mind after experiencing a great catastrophe such as a war, a military coup, natural disasters and terrorist attacks. The tear mixture shows human lose, broken families, lost friends, hunger, pain and exploitation. Whereas the charcoal dust shows the environmental lose, ruined homes, destroyed schools and hospitals.
Using water, salt and oil I have created a thick, silky substance which closely looks and feels like real tears. Water, salt and oil are the three main substances found in tears. Although my mixture is not truly accurate it manages to successfully depict real tears.
So how would you display/exhibit this work? Is there a specific site that would have the right historical credentials? If so how would you get the work shown there? How do you light this type of work? If shown in Leeds where? The art gallery or the cellers under the Town Hall? or outside the Army barracks?
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