Another super awesome/controversial/rad artist is Millie Brown, who uses her own vomit as a medium. What she does is she drinks dyed milk or various colorful liquids or sometimes even glitter, and vomits it up onto a canvas. The finished pieces end up being crazy bright jackson pollock-y splatter pieces.
Occasionally she'll even use herself as her canvas:
The process itself becomes a performance piece of it's own, I personally find it really interesting to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZ5BtZkIR4
She even collabed with lady gaga, once at SXSW, and another time for a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHrsxnb_oIw
Personally, I do find it rather gross at first, but after getting past that I also really really love it - especially considering it's performative nature, and the idea it's grounded on of the body itself as a medium. I've actually considered at several occasions getting blood drawn to use for a piece, though I'm probably gonna make sure it's for a piece I'm extremely passionate about more than others, whatever it may be.
ANYWAY YEAH BLOOD/VOMIT ART IS FUCKIN RAD (at least in my opinion)
Oh wow, they're both so beautiful. I definitely think process adds to the finished piece in both cases.
ReplyDeleteMy brother and I used cat piss (ammonia) to create intaglio prints on copper for a bit. It was gross, fun and unpredictable.
This is crazy beautiful and twisted. It's one of those, you want to look away but it's too intriguing to look away, kind of situations. I give these artists mad props for being able to control bodily fluids to use as their medium.
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