The last week has been a encouragingly productive one. The body casting has gone extremely well. I explained earlier about the first attempt to cast the negative directly. Which wasn't as successful as i had hoped. So instead we cast the two torsos separately with Alginate, reenforced by plaster to help keep the shape. The plaster casts in the mould came out wonderfully detailed, needs a little attention where there are air bubbles in the alginate were casted. The Alginate mould came off surprisingly easy and on Monday we are going to try and get another bust out of each mould.
With the plaster busts i can now cast the two negative spaces and connect them together to create a rubber negative space. I can then use this and the busts to use a variety of materials to express the negative space, each hopefully holding its own connotations. One of which is glass, i'm looking forward to the process. This is a great progression in the artwork, i have a collection of process' available to develop with, ones that were not open to me when casting the space directly – in-between two hands for example.
My new digital camera arrived on Wednesday, just in time for our field trip up the woods. We found a wonderful space for Sean to test his cit-scape paintings and projections out doors in a very contrasting environment. He wants to test their potency in an environment that has the potential to be very overwhelming. And for me, well we found an old Slag heap and grabbed a few samples of what i thought was coal to test back at uni. And yes, it was coal… ive struck gold! Ive also included a photo here of pools of water that have been effected by mining, right next to the slag heap. Shows some of the colours that will be involved when im filming for my Utopia – projection collage.
Have a good weekend everyone!
can't wait for monday!
