Jennys video lick

Description:I began to lick the most horrific element within the image to remove it, and therefore the amount of licking depended on the image itself. The process of drawing the images was important, there needed to be a relationship between the film and the drawing so the films were projected using a data projector, paused at certain points, and the drawing was traced onto the paper behind the projected image. Rather than allowing the film to complete itself, the drawing of the image halts the story of the film so it cannot restore any kind of patriarchal 'order' through filmic narrative. Different films were chosen for different reasons, but mostly because they are well known and recognised, so that even though they are taken out of their context, thus disrupted and recreated, they still have some sense of 'being seen before' - this consequently creates an almost uncanny experience. Instead what is left is the abject quality of the scene, which is further reiterated by the action of licking, which absorbs saliva and blood into the image. As the source images for The Lick Drawings, I wanted to look at common tropes of horror, so I drew stills taken from mostly mainstream horror films. The pressure of licking causes my tongue to bleed.

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