I tried squeezing washing up liquid from the bottle onto an A4 piece of cartridge paper. The presence of green goo pooled on the paper is what I expected. It was slightly more viscous than water, but less than oil or acrylic paint. This meant the washing up liquid lost its shape over a minute. I moved the paper a little to warp the shape of it even further.

It ended up looking like an inkblot from the Rorschach test. It hasn’t dried yet, so I’m waiting for the test piece to dry to see what changes, if there are any.

I went onto experimenting with gravity and seeing how the material behaves when not in a stable position. In one of the photos above, I used the curvature of the paper (I cut it from a roll of paper) to shape the washing up liquid.

I used green washing up liquid because there was a strong association with slime, and the unpleasantness of slime created a dissonance with the scent of the work; which had a pleasant smell. I think the tension of pleasant and unpleasantness is similar to what Chadwick was trying to explore in her work (her work explores the binaries of things), which I mentioned in my previous post.