New to blogging. Will anyone read this? please click and let me know if you do, just write ‘yes, i hear you, sister’, or something.
Thinking this week about how my recent installation was recieved at St Thomas’ Church, Sheffield, a kind of marble-looking but glowing womb of the pregnant virgin. It was a bit harder to read than previous sculptures – see photo, as it was only the torso of a very pregnant woman, and displayed on a mirror to make it cave-like. Here is the accompanying text – comments welcome:
“Your entry was so quiet, the heavens hushed to watch you wrap yourself in a girl’s fragile clay. The jar filling slowly, fragrant infinity within human torso, limbs, head. Your descent through vermilion cushions ends in work hewn hands.You wore your first ruby crown, a gift from Mary’s crimson temple.You are a sweet, ripe apple, flesh hiding the Star of David.”
Preoccupations for the coming weeks: I want to translate the fabric from, amongst others, Rubens’ sublime “The Descent from the Cross” (1611-12) into a life sized 3-d fabric sculpture. I will use a method I am developing with fabric dipped into a a plaster of paris mix, and quickly draped over a body. The question is, hav I set myself an impossible task? I will need scaffolding and probably a circus performer as a model as the body is so distorted. Anyone bendy out there fancy a day being draped in wet plaster in Barnsley? The piece will be displayed (at Easter) without the body, of course, maybe with some scaffold still in place to suggest the cross. I mafe the first maquette this week, still a long way to go to get this loking like a renaissance furled marble sculpture….
Also need to start a new photography brief, somehow fitting in with the project above. I would like to investigat the poses of the other figures in Rubens’ painting- there is one man holding the cloth in his teeth, another supporting Christ from below, but how?
That’s enough for now, will try and update every Fri.
