Conkers are awesome-sauce!

My goal for the next while is to move onto something completely different to what I've been doing so far. And I've sort of done that.

I found these conkers in Ennis one day. And I picked up and found them to be quite appealing to just rub in my hand. There's nothing,that I know of, like them in nature. A great source of inspiration! And they have brought me 3 new(ish) ideas. The first of which was to run with they're tactileness and hang hundreds of conkers from the ceiling and encourage people to walk through them. I sensation that would be very satisfying. To me at least. I think I would ask people to smash them off each other as well. Make that part of the piece.
Another continues with the afterimage thing from the juggling, but this time in 3D. I want to make latex models of a conker and stack them one on top of the other which would be the afterimage of the conker falling to the ground. That then lead me onto depicting the conkers in the way I used them for as a child. Like depicted above. 2 real conkers at either end then latex models meeting in the middle and I'd like to smoosh 2 together and have bits of latex dripping down.
Just for an experiment, I made half casts of the conkers from coloured wax. Which I quite liked working with! But the results were so so. It sort of resembles a conker. But just as an experiment I'm happy with it! I made several of these and plan to arrange them in much the same way as the latex ones. Including melting the wax where they meet in the middle.

Another idea came to me from using the SCAMPER technique. I thought it would be cool to look at simple objects and what they would become when put into a certain situation or how we associate one object/thing with another object/thing. Firstly sheep and cotton wool came to mind. Then people and pipe cleaners. Personally, I like it and want to investigate more to see what else simple objects can be made into.

My final idea for this last week is another birth child of the conker. Looking at the space it left behind within it's shell! Which brought me onto looking at a banana skin and random rubbish thrown about the place in the car park. It was also pointed out to me that the rain also leaves behind a mark in the form of puddles. So does the wind in leaves on the ground.

This is I did by slowing the shutter speed on my camera and waving my phone about the place. It's not really relevant. I just like it!