vines and hair

Continuing with the sense of the gothic and attempting to create a mysterious and unsettling mood, I took some images of a Victorian style lock of hair tied with red thread with a background of leaves that had been turned into lace by being nibbled by worms. They were wet and muddy.
The manipulated hair images do not convey the mouldy, rotting state of the leaves. Rather they are quite intricate, ornate and Baroque in style.

Helen Chadwick created a photographic image by combining a scain of twisted golden hair with a rope of glossy pig's intestines. The contrast of the golden hair, representing purity and innocence, against the slippery intestines from inside a dead animal create a surge of disgust and contradiction which feels unsettling.

  Chadwick (1991) Loop my Loop

I need to push my work from the fairytale into the nightmare.