Approach

Like I mentioned in the Intention section, I knew I wanted to use tissue or materials alike to create this project because of the powerful scene in the music video. However, I tentatively considered using fabric as well, and embroidering it with patterns. I wasn't sure what kind of patterns to embroider or if I'm skillful enough to complete the embroidering under 2 hours. Thus I abandoned that idea. 

Because the title of the song is Cherry Wine, and there's a line in the lyrics that goes "the blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine", which is portraying the victim's reluctance to admit that they're in an abusive relationship, I thought it's important to incorporate cherry wine, or its variant, cherry juice, into this project, as it symbolizes this song. Then, as I was inspired by the imagery of the victim covering up her bruises with heavy makeup in the music video to show her turning a blind eye to the situation she's in, I smeared makeup onto the tissue, and intentionally made the makeup and cherry juice blend together. 

I added the copper wire in my project at the end, because I wanted something to represent the twisting nature and grotesqueness of domestic abuse, for love and violence are often the opposite of each other but interwoven in this case. Also, I intended the way the wires twist the soft tissue to symbolize how violence has destroyed the soft and sweet love.