I approached my assemblages by gathering a bunch of objects and materials first. I evaluated each one’s properties and combined them in as many ways I could think of. I was heavily inspired by my research on Christine Hellyar, who used wool to contain her materials. A lot pop my pieces have this idea of being inside and contained. I also used colour scheme as a way of assembling my objects as I think they create a visual relationship between each other. for example I painted the skewers black to visually ‘attach’ them to the black stocking. I was also playing around with hard and soft and the contrast between the two. This is definitely something I want to explore more. As well as this, as I explored in my artist research, is using fluidity and goo as another material to incorporate into my assemblages.
Looking back at these sculptures they have a human body type appearance. This is especially evident in the fleshy, stocking material almost resembling skin. This is definitely something I was to explore further.
Ouch! that hard-soft material has a great – see if you can exploit that more. Great stuff.