Blue Wolf's Diary was a solo project by Hannah Robin Baker to investigate how creating via an alter ego can effect the artistic process.
The Blue Wolf persona was a heavy drinking, love-sick and sex-obsessed 'artist' whose 'work' consisted of offensive words and imagery often defacing 'real' art or found/stolen objects.
The project culminated in a 'show' which took place during the University of Portsmouth's MA final year show inside a claustrophobic 'gallery space' with blue painted walls which spiraled inwards towards a dangerously frenetic mechanical installation powered by a large pillar drill, under which the Blue Wolf had rested her head, for the final time.
On the short and depressing journey into the eye of the storm, unwilling visitors to Blue Wolf's 'gallery' could follow her 'artistic journey' through her bleak 'White Period' - populated with inanely grinning snow beasts, her delirious 'Black Period' in which she gibbered to herself uncontrollably about insectoid relationships, to her absurdly over-confident 'Blue Period' mainly characterised by her vandalising of existing art works and furniture with pornographic depictions of warped nude forms and quotations from unsavoury magazines.
Her diary 'Love Trek' could also be read on the way, should one wish to pore over the booze-sodden justifications of a creature who has not only lost her moral compass but who is also clearly attempting to stamp on everyone else's compass, moral or otherwise.
The Blue Wolf persona was a heavy drinking, love-sick and sex-obsessed 'artist' whose 'work' consisted of offensive words and imagery often defacing 'real' art or found/stolen objects.
The project culminated in a 'show' which took place during the University of Portsmouth's MA final year show inside a claustrophobic 'gallery space' with blue painted walls which spiraled inwards towards a dangerously frenetic mechanical installation powered by a large pillar drill, under which the Blue Wolf had rested her head, for the final time.
On the short and depressing journey into the eye of the storm, unwilling visitors to Blue Wolf's 'gallery' could follow her 'artistic journey' through her bleak 'White Period' - populated with inanely grinning snow beasts, her delirious 'Black Period' in which she gibbered to herself uncontrollably about insectoid relationships, to her absurdly over-confident 'Blue Period' mainly characterised by her vandalising of existing art works and furniture with pornographic depictions of warped nude forms and quotations from unsavoury magazines.
Her diary 'Love Trek' could also be read on the way, should one wish to pore over the booze-sodden justifications of a creature who has not only lost her moral compass but who is also clearly attempting to stamp on everyone else's compass, moral or otherwise.