Stella HAMMET
Let me get home safe #8
Stella HAMMET
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
VCE Studio Arts 3 & 4
Artist statement:For this series I have used self-portraiture to communicate the feelings and experiences of young women at night. This series expresses my ideas about how women should be safe to walk home alone, whatever the time of day. They should not have to endure feeling unsafe, with wolf whistling, cat calls or feeling vulnerable while living their lives. I feel that women certainly should not be at fault for trying to live and work without fear, in the same way men do. It was interesting to note, while taking these photographs I was cat called by a group of men from the car, which added purpose to my exploration of these ideas.
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
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