This week my long established need to make things more complicated than they should be continues. Why take 5 minutes to do something when it can take 5 hours?
I have been casting my family fingers in wax. Laboriously in the same way that I made the bottles for SAUCED using both microcrystalline and glass wax. It is extraordinary how different the two materials are, as they are both essentially the same thing. They require very different handling and I think I am getting a little better at judging the temperatures and the manual dexterity needed to produce the effect I want. I find them strangely compelling and have spent several days just making and making and making them – each is completely unique though comes from the same mould. I also know that if I drop the box on the long walk home, my day’s work will be wasted. This seems to make them extra valuable somehow.
I have also made lots of small female figures. This is more of a straightforward process and I feel less emotionally attached to them, although when pressing them out of their silicon beds I feel a need to apologise if I accidently break one’s arm off or have ineffectually poured the wax and accidently made her legs a little wonky. At this rate I will have to give them all names.
