was bound to happen, but my order for astroturf from the internet became confused and I now have two rolls of astroturf arriving tomorrow!!! I just have to make sure the correct one gets sent back….. (Anyone need 4×5 metres of astroturf if it all goes bottoms up???!!!) After dealing with this I went into Uni to see what I could get on with. After due consideration, I went with the idea of trying to mount an earth covered half-hemisphere on the side wall of my installation. It was harder than I thought it would be, but I think I finally made a passable job of it. I reckon I would want to come up with a better approach if it was going in the Tate, but given the circumstances it’s not bad!
I came up with the idea of a wooden ‘T’ structure which had two large nails (with their points blunted a little) protruding and slightly bending upwards. The theory behind this was, that as I had packed the hemisphere with polystyrene and it was a light papier-mache structure anyway, that it should slide onto the nails which would then also pull it further to the wall because of their angle. I drew in a large breath and glued the ‘T’section / bracket to my gleaming white and freshly painted wall. After deciding which way the hemisphere would look best I slowly offered it to the bracket and slid it down onto the nails with good effect. The process had worked in exactly the way I wanted it to, which I must admit is quite an unusual occurrence! Due to having slight artistic OCD though, I did have to remove it again a couple of times and try it in other positions until I was satisfied I would never be able to get it to be 100% perfect. I will just have to put up with 93.72% which I dont think is bad for a degree show and a student with OCD!
The actual finished piece looks like this –
