Stuff.

As I'm sitting around at home not feeling to great, not able to get to my work at uni and post that up instead, I thought I'd post up the bits and bobs I have lurking around my house and on my old computer. Probably going to be a few posts like this. Its not great stuff, just stuff, but its something. This is from foundation again, just me messing around really, trying things out before the real stuff becomes something.

My friends face created using algenate, something I tried when I didn't really know what else to do. The idea stemmed from ageing, trying to recreate cracks and wrinkles. So I made a few Plaster moulds up from the algenate and tried glass and ceramics out with some strange attempts at ice...

The writing within the ice are just messages like "I am somebody" and a repeating message like "I am a mother, a daughter, I've laughed, mourned, cried" etc. just me trying express my thoughts in a 3-D way. I used the same method of the ice skate. Creating a Vacuum plastic form of a plaster version. An ice ice-skate! That was just me seeing what I could actually do and having fun doing it!

The glass is window glass, that's why its the strange green colour, this I smashed up and layered the mould, melting it at high temperatures so it just fused together.

The ceramics consists of stoneware clay pushed into the mould roughly to only show sections of the face and then pouring on (roughly again) glazes that are designed to crack.