This collection of work stems closely from my Dissertation, which was titled Once Upon A Time, When Little Red Riding Hood Ate Her Grandmother and Drank Her Blood: Discussing The Metaphor of Consumption in Traditional Fairy Tales and Childhood Culture.
I reconsidered that Little Red Riding Hood was willingly devoured. By entering the wolf, he becomes the passageway to the loss of childhood innocence. The girl is reborn a woman. “In myth and fairy tale, the metaphor of devouring often stands for sex” (Warner 1994:259).
My final piece for this project was a film shot on super 8mm in a studio titled ”Grandmother’s Bones”. I also made a large 3-D sculpture of a wolf head to use as a film prop, as well as creating a collection of screen prints, sculptures and photographs.
The act of sexual penetration is conveyed through the performance art in the film. I used the colour red in my film to symbolise menstrual blood, violence and sex.
This project was exhibited at Super Graphics and can be seen in further detail here.
