Scars practice

After watching a few make up tutorials on youtube I've practiced the method of applying make that resemble a scar onto a subject. The results are that scar froming into a scar are as follows. 

New Idea for Scars Photography

Theme of the photography is memory.

The concept of scarring is fascinating, a severe injury inflicted onto someone, they’re left not only physically damaged but psychologically, a constant reminder on the wound they shall forever bare.

Someone is sat on the floor over in the corner on one side partially hidden by the shadows with his/her back faced to us. While another person is stranding out in the light on the other.

They both have scar on their bodies, the one in the shadows is ashamed and trying to hide him/herself from sight. The other standing in the light is more confident and open to display their scars for others to look upon.

To either hide their scar away in shame or embrace it leaving it exposed for all to see.

Sketch of my ideas.

 Experience      Witnessed                    Changed Getting over     Recovering                       Not identified by scar                                Wiser                        More Cautious             Healed                      Adapted          Accepted                   Embraced

  

 Pain   Damage        Never fully healed           Shame                      Regret          Disgrace

Anguish       Loss of Beauty       Disfigure      Hideous       Repulsive    Rebuffed

For a practice I've taken stills based on an early concept where a young man receives an injury on his face.

I've been advised to steer away from applying a personal portrayal in the photography
and delve further into the deeper meaning of scars, portray a variety of examples.

Five become one Photoshop of scarred buildings

In photoshop I compiled the photos of the brick wall into a collage.

I've also used stills of scars taken from the internet on my image of a brick wall looking as though the wall is scarred.

Photo stills on scarred buildings

Here are a selection of still images on brick walls that have sustained damage over time, a display of scaring on the surface of these buidlings, in a dispay of destruction and vandalism these are marks left behind, a reminder of the damage that has been left.

Is this an artform in its own right?

Scars on characters

Scars are often portrayed as pivotal part of a characters trait, often the character is silent mysterious type who says little to nothing keeping the character as vague as possible and all the more interesting leaving more to the imagination. The scar ads an element of tension to the character implying that they’ve had experience in combat.

In the film The Lion King the antagonist not only bares a scar on his face but he also identifies himself with by being named Scar.

John Connor, a soldier from the year 2029 who’s leading the human resistance in a war against the machines. He’s only mentioned is the first Terminator film.

 He appears briefly in the second film Terminator 2 judgment day baring a scar on his face, an obvious injury he sustained from the war.

John Connor appears briefly in the third film Terminator 3 Rise of the machines.

The events of how John Connor receives his scar are portrayed in the film Terminator Salvation.

Harry Potter, a popular fantasy book series follow the young protagonist Harry Potter, a boy wizard who received a lightening shaped scar on his forehead as a baby from a spell cast on him by the antagonist Voldermort.

In the film The Dark Knight the antagonist the Joker has scars across his mouth, he has two stories as to how he got them.

In the film Avatar the antagonist Quaritch has three scars across his head from an encounter with an alien life from out on the battlefield.