2nd Semester Week 14

There goes yet another week.
I have a had a really busy week all around what with selecting work from what I have done, Writing the dissertation proposal plan, hunting for research material and last but not least painting..! Yes that is right painting, but painting my studio white, yet again and again, six times I have painted that bloody studio this week but I am determined to get the studio perfect this time for hand in. (providing no one whacks great big nails and screws through the opposite side of my pristine walls @Angela Gordon!! lol

I have also made a sculptural piece on one of the walls again with the society theme behind it, the concept of a multicultural society, another pillar. this has been fixed to the wall and I have fastened a light behind the piece so that the word society is illuminated from the sculpture. This piece is made form some old pieces of material and a raggedy old carpet, the idea was to take rubbish and make it into something that is looked up to, a sign really or a pillar of society that someone looks up to, I tried to transform old rubbish into a statement.

I have also been enlarging some of my perspex block Images onto A3 paper to place one or two selected images on the main part of my studio wall. This will be the results of the maquettes that I was experimenting with last week. I borrowed the college camera hoping that the imagery would be of better quality to be enlarged and printed off than the original pictures that I had taken a few weeks ago with my camera. I will have to directly print these from the collage as the pics that I had printed and scanned show any scratches that are on the photo paper, the images are still good enough to show but I wanted top quality if they were to be used in my space.

I also had used some alginate this week with Caroline Jackson. Caroline is working with the facial persona of oneself and asked me if I would either have the alginate on my face or help her do hers. Ah-aha well that was not a hard choice for me to make so I helped Caroline do her face. Alginate is a natural product and is used to take impressions of objects and to create a mould which then in turn is used to cast the object in plaster, this is the same material used by dentists to take an impression of the teeth in case dentures are required. The alginate that we used was a slow drying one and gave us 4 minutes to use it and 8 minutes in total for it to dry, previously I have used alginate which was fast drying and only gave one minute to use and one minute to dry. It was an experience if nothing else but the mould came out brilliantly, so did much of Caroline's hair ah-aha. These are Caroline's pictures but I just had to show some in order to see the effect is has. SORRY CAROLINE!

That was after the alginate had been strategically removed.

But just look at the inverted mould. it gives the illusion that it is protruding outwards but is actually inverted.

Then on Friday it is time to crack on with my studio and start to clear the trash out, no not my work ahah the  other trash. I need to make room to get my tears hung up and in place and decide whether or not to have the sound with the piece.

On Friday I will also be aiding my old mucker Sue Riemer again with her film on Catholicism as a child, this time we are using the college equipment and different room in order to get better sound quality and performance than we did in the dance studio. Then a busy weekend at home doing some more D.I.Y and gardening weather permitting, the rain keeps on falling and still a drought!!!