A rocky outcropping, a moss and an organism

I had a great day in my studio yesterday choosing the colours and shapes that I will use in the final sculpture. I use relief ink on sculptures such as theses because the colour is very intense with lots of pigment. It is a bit of an experiment using printing ink on a sculpture that will be outside, but I will just have to wait and see how the colour reacts over the 12 months it will be on display. Using ink also gives me the option of creating a print from the sculpture. I am interested in how my sculptures can also be tools for making other images. The idea that I can create a second two dimensional object of this work in the form of a print is very interesting to me as I often think about how creating objects that represent creatures or structures in nature can also be a form of collecting specimens. The specimens being characters from a world that I am creating in the work.