Creepy Installation

For a final piece in my last unit at college I had to create an installation that used at least three different types of media. I based it off of the painting "Las Meninas" by Diego Velazquez painted in 1656. I thought that Margarita, the blonde little girl at the center of the painting, looked a lot like a porcelain doll.

I then decided that I would go down the creepy route because dolls freak me out, I started creating A3 and A4 mono prints of dolls and stuck them all over the walls of a small dark room. Then I tried to create a horror-film-trailer-esque video of them. I edited the video to fit to my audio and then projected the film onto the walls. The audio was the soundtrack from the horror game "Hektor" composed by Shaun Chasin and performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Listening to it made me feel a deep sorrow but as the music goes on it creates a beautifully eerie atmosphere.

Unfortunately the laptop that was used to project the video was quite old and because the video played so incredibly slow it went out of sync to the music. Other than that I was pleased with my installation as many people who came in to see it felt it was quite creeped out. Blogger wont let me upload the video of the installation but I have a couple of photos.