It Got a Little Narcissistic

Well after wrapping the statue with cling film I became interested in the idea of creating a replica of my own body. Specifically my body though. Nothing else really seemed to interest me. This meant wrapping my hands in cling film again  with the intention of creating a wax replica. 

This was that replica. It didn't really resemble a hand at all. Just ever so slightly suggested it. Which in a way was nice because it was as if I was taking away from the essence of the subject twice. Once by wrapping it and again when I added the wax.

This idea of taking away from the essence attracted me again. But of course this is where it got a little narcissistic. I wanted to create my head from wax. Firstly I took away from the essence twice by wrapping my head in tin foil then filling that with wax.

 I of course needed to take it a step further however by taking away 3 times. I did this by wrapping my head in the cotton and rope I favored so much in the beginning then covering that in plaster bandage to create the shell then filling that with wax. 3 times. 

This is the "shell"

The Sentient Guardian of the Stairs

It's been a while Blog.... My bad.... and RAG week's bad too.
SO here's what I never updated you on in Sculpture...

After wrapping all those things in my room I decided to take a leaf from Christo's book and started thinking bigger. This started off with a plaster cast of a male figure neglected at the bottom of a stairwell in the college. Simple wrapping, just cotton ffrom the fashion department and rope. I was attracted to these materials by they'er versiltileness and reuseability.

I liked this material so much I continued with it, except I wrapped it in a different way. Things got a little fashiony at this point for my liking.

 After I removed this material I tried again, excpet with cling film. The hope was that by the end of wrapping I would have a shell replica of the statue. But that didn't work out. Here's what it looked like with it covered in cling film.

I AM a Sculpture Scientist!

This week I'm partaking in the sculpture elective  The word I have chosen to inquire is 'wrap' so here's some pieces based around the word 'wrap'

Rubber bands wrapped around a wine bottle (both found in studio  on the second day)

A dead mouse I found on the footpath mummified in this  long fabric.

I said I'd wrap all the things in my room... and so I did (minus clothes). This is just a a documentation of that action really.

I AM a Sculpture Scientist!

This week I'm partaking in the sculpture elective  The word I have chosen to inquire is 'wrap' so here's some pieces based around the word 'wrap'

Rubber bands wrapped around a wine bottle (both found in studio  on the second day)

A dead mouse I found on the footpath mummified in this  long fabric.

I said I'd wrap all the things in my room... and so I did (minus clothes). This is just a a documentation of that action really.

Realization of an Ambition

I tried making a sculpture in which the wire would meld with it's shadow more fluidly. So to achieve this I simply spray painted it black. While the sculpture creates my favourite shadows out of the 2, the shadow and sculpture aren't melded perfectly. But sure what harm. It's still nice.

Then of course there's the ambition I realized. Right from the start of this journey of people moving I said I wanted to make a sculpture again to this, but with stiff rope. I thought of using rope and covering it in wax, or threading a piece of wire through the rope. But they all seemed impractical. Inspired by the works of Isabel Nolan and Barry Flanangan I created this rope formation.

This is actually the second version. The wire in the first was much too flimsy and wouldn't stand AT ALL. The wire in the second (this one) is still pretty pathetic, all the same it's stronger, yet it still had to be hung from my curtain polw to be anyway upright.

3D

I think I may have mentioned before how I was going to make 3D work, well this is one step in that process.  I'm well proper proud of it! I love how it's one entity but has several individual representations of a person. And I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it can stand on it's own without any support. I think I'm over enthused and pleased with that fact. It's shadows how ever are where I get the most enjoyment from it! It's sometimes like a continuation onto the piece itself. Where the shadows begin and the body ends is blurred... I LOVE THAT!! Well proud!!... Now to find a way of presenting that shadow aspect successfully during the assessment.. Look you some down there!

DEER, as in the word.

It was pointed out to me that I've learned that to create a sense of movement all I have to do is repeat an image. And that got me thinking about the simplicity of the nature of movement. So how difficult could it be to make it look like other things are moving AKA the word deer.

 

 It combines Typography AND my project. Which makes me happy. Then I added in animation! Yet again.