More spirit bottles!!

I have also made a few more Wanga or Zombie bottles as I think they are great visual and tactile objects. I think covering the hard glass in a soft material is somehow very satisfying, I think because we are so used to seeing glass bottles with are hard and reflective and the juxtaposition of the soft cotton is aesthetically interesting. I also think the messy stitching gives it that voodoo quality along with the colours. Black and red are often colours that symbolise horror or at least are colours often used in adverts posters anything visual to denote horror. I think the bottle where I have used mainly black with accents of red and white feels more like a prop for a horror film than the bottle where I have used lots of white. I also found that on the bottle where I had pulled out cotton thread and matted it together to create a textile didn't follow the silhouette of the bottle and doesn't look as visually interesting as the others. I have also used different shapes of bottle which give different silhouettes.

   

I want to develop this idea further as well after looking at Christine Boreland this made me think about how do you capture a spirit bottle? I also think it should have meaning to it as with the Wanga bottles although they are great to look at they have no other level than of being a prop. I do not come from that culture or practice of voodoo, also there is a ceremony and human bones that need to be put in for it to be genuine. Anyway it also made me thing about messages in bottles so I thought about putting words and images from my life as a visual way of putting my 'spirit' in a bottle. Although I think it could be quite a personal object that I may want to cover like the Wanga bottles but I guess that's just personal choice. I think I also want to look into message's in bottles as well as a further development from this idea

Message In A Bottle

From The Guinness World Record Website The oldest message in a bottle spent 92 years 229 days at sea. A bottom drift bottle, numbered 423B, was released by the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK at 60º 50'N 00º 38'W on 25 April 1914 and recovered by fisherman, Mark Anderson of Bixter, Shetland, UK, at 60º 50'N 00º 37'W on 10 December 2006.






This photo is of the actual handwritten message in that bottle.