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SKIN PUCKERING
For the survival design, the deer skeleton will be embedded into the skin, worn like a permanent mask on the forehead. To create the puckered skin effect that happens when it has been cut open or in healing, I have looed for reference in the below primary photographs of Charlotte Thomas. The incident happened in August 2013 at Ocean Beach club in Ibiza, Spain.
Above: Charlotte aged fifteen. Above right: the scene of the incident. She slipped by the side of the pool and onto glass. The glass completely tore open her skin, revealing the muscle tissue underneath. The wound was so deep that there wasn’t a great deal of blood. The owner of the beach club (Tony Truman) attempted to tie the wound together with a tee shirt and this later created an infection, see images below.
The wound was exposed to bacteria for a long period before it was stitched the first time and it ended up getting infected. The wound was oozing puss after one week (see the bulging skin around the stitch marks, the wound was weeping constantly for over three weeks.
See first two images: I will use the images as reference to create a rolled skin effect on my survival make up where the skeleton will sit across the forehead. I want the skin to look as though it is growing over the edges of the skeleton, sore and puckered at the incision point.
The photographs where all taken over a three week window where there was three operations, the stitches had to be removed and the skin had to be re-sealed three times before the wound stopped weeping. The images clearly show the incision point where the skin was split open and the edges pucker under, looking rounded and sore. The skin also looks tight and there is a lip between the two meeting points. The surrounding skin looks pulled/ stretched and pink in colour like a scarr, the pink/ red tones are the swelling and bruising underneath the surfce lAyers and I will focus on re-creating the colours and textures in my design.
Below: Images taken after the stitches where removed. The infection was still present and her leg took a total of six months to heal.
