TUES:
This week we have started working with new materials, specifically plaster. I have personally never worked with plaster before so the first day was very experimental. Working with plastic was a lot different than I expected. For starters, I was surprised at how malleable plaster can be when you allow it to harden. I experimented with dipping fabric in the plaster and then moulding it around a plastic bucket. I found after repeating this process and allowing it to harden I was left with a very abstract fruit bowl looking shape. As a way to further expand my hammock ideas from working with the steel, I made a hammock shaped mould out of fabric and then poured plaster into it. After it had hardened I had a free-standing hammock. It didn’t quite come out how I expected but this was my first time working with plaster so I was not disappointed.
As for where to go next I want to further expand the “hammock” shape and hopefully go bigger, as I feel like I have been limiting myself with size.
WED:
Today after talking to Ryder he suggested that I try different moulds and methods to try and achieve my “hammock” shape.
THURS: Today James suggested that I upscale my work and try something a bit different. So I soaked some fabric in plaster and lay it up against the wall and the ground so that when it would harden it would create a sort of L shape. When I look at all of my sculptures including the ones made from metal I can see a connection or theme between the works. I can see that I have been focusing on a curved shape throughout my sculptures. A classmate of mine showed me a book of sculptures and I was partially inserted in one artist named Antonieta Sosa. The work I am referring to is a 3D semi-circle that is free-standing. I was inserted in this work as it had similar shapes to what I have been exploring over the past weeks and I would like to further explore her works and art-making style.
