I was introduced to zinc by my uni technician at a moment when I was feeling a bit bored about it all. Zinc, it is easy to cut and to manipulate. Although I’m using here very simple shapes so I wasn’t risking much. I think if you want to do more complex things, then everything needs to be planned out better, the need for patterns is almost necessary, and perhaps doing a maquette before. But like with any other material, really. Making a maquette is something that I don’t think I have ever done, and is always there, in that to-do-list at the back of my mind, maybe that’s the next step! but do I have time for maquettes? By the way I love the word maquette too.
Anyway… zinc is okay, but feels cold and don’t like that rusty element of metal, but this is easily solved by painting it. I think I like clean things, surfaces, maybe my sense of domesticity comes across here.
I wish I tried out more materials in my second year, but with settling down in another group, getting used to the word sculpture and dealing with my chest infections and illnesses, it was time again, to pack up and call it a another educational year. It is never too late.
I took the idea of the cardboard “hammer face” that I made at the beginning of the course, to make it again with my new discovered material, zinc. I have an envy to mix materials and for the work to become rich in texture. I don’t want to leave fabrics/sewing behind as it is an important part of my practice, so I thought to sew the pvc with a blancket stitch to the zinc to see how both materials work together. The whole zinc feel didn’t please me at all. It looked like the tin man in Wizard of Oz, or a robot, too cold, not passionate enough, too dead. But, modroc was still there, so I decided to give it another chance and of course the cardboard, one of my beloved material these days.
Okay, is this a self-portrait? Where is this going? It is definately someone. I want to represent a figure. Not sure if male or female, but by the pink pvc, it might be a woman.
