Università di Brighton graduate Amanda il cotone che è la realizzazione di cornici per foto di neonati utilizzando le loro placente. La figura mostra la placenta preparati per lo stampaggio in frame.
4912 x 6186 px | 41,6 x 52,4 cm | 16,4 x 20,6 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2013
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University of Brighton, UK
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Editorial use only - Babies in the frame:A University of Brighton graduate is making frames for photos of newborn babies using their placentas – and she is already receiving orders from parents.Amanda Cotton has developed a technique of adding dried and crushed pieces of placenta to moulds filled with clear casting resin to create marble-effect frames.She said: “I have had a lot of positive feedback from mothers and fathers to be.”Amanda, 25, developed her picture frame technique before graduating this year in 3D Materials Practice (now Design and Craft) at the Faculty of Arts. She said: “It is my belief that human by-products have just as valid aesthetic value as their virginal material resource. From this starting point, I chose to create souvenirs which pin-point key times in one’s life, using materials of personal significance.“I chose the placenta because during my time at Brighton I lived with a midwife and it became apparent through her studies that there was little little importance placed on the placenta even though it is the link between the mother and baby throughout the entire pregnancy.“My work is all about our incredible bodies creating materials which we love and care for yet, once separated from us, we are repulsed by and we feel the need to discard then. My work is about expressing the amazing and intricate materials our bodies provide.”Amanda, now working for a London design company, is selling 4” X 6” frames for £75 and is expanding the size range after receiving positive feedback from parents.Amanda said some people are put off with the idea of using placentas but added: “It is quite common for people to keep their baby’s by-products such as the umbilical cord, first tooth or hair clippings to document their progress, along with photos and notes. “The placenta is one of the first creations the mother and baby make together – why not celebrate that with a keepsake?”
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