Jann Haworth
Cell, 2009-2010
Plastic, textile on wood
92 x 56 x 3 cm
36 1/4 x 22 1/8 x 1 1/8 in
36 1/4 x 22 1/8 x 1 1/8 in
© Jann Haworth
The set was about Ties and Corsets and cross gender. The corset being the restrictor of the female and the tie of the male. It isn't exactly about hermaphrodites though...
The set was about Ties and Corsets and cross gender. The corset being the restrictor of the female and the tie of the male. It isn't exactly about hermaphrodites though the figure is split- more about fluid characteristics. The title cell cuts two ways- as confinement, and also just a straight reference to animation cells. Each cell being one nano second of the full moving animation. The material vinyl repro's the acetate used in early animation. {My Dad worked for Disney when he first was in the film business and was an 'in-betweenie' straight out of art school]. Each piece in the set considered some form of cutting: 1. paper patterns [that one uses to make garments cutting process], 2.Cardboard Cut out graphic look [back of Kellogs cereal packs when I was small], 3. Dick Tracey comic [Scrap book cut and the way a comic separates and frames units of time] , and then the Cell as Animation unit referring to the 'cut' in filmmaking.