I am still researching my ideas for three-dimensional forms using wax and paper at present, but have started to let the shapes grow in my hand more organically.
I like aspects of these forms in wax, but they are too floral like at present. Will try grouping them together then photographing them, this may help.
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I do not have a set picture in my head or even a set medium I just get a sensation that ruminates through my body and I get very frustrated because I cannot just say it’s like this and produce it. I know lots that I do not want my work to be about and I know some things that it must have. I want parts to have a delicate fragility, I want to evoke associations with natural forms, I want an interesting surface with strong highs and dark depths. I know that though ultimately it will be about painting I have to manipulate materials, as this is what is driving through me and causing my frustration. I worked with clay last module and this (though the item was not liked) helped me realise that I need this swirling rippling crevices and dark holed forms and to be able to create them in some way, I need to physically manipulate while at the same time leaving room for accidental occurrences, ‘Happy Accidents’ as one tutor calls them.
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The wax is both great, because it melts at body temperature, so once warm is very malleable and desperately fragile and fiddly for the same reason! In between working I have to keep the wax in the fridge at present. Hope the kids don’t try to eat it, (they have been warned!)
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The grouped together photos are O.K., they still have a strong floral or under sea creature look about them, but these forms are more interesting to me, they are getting closer to the ‘something’ that I want.
