An Assembly of Parts
Category Archives: Sculpture
First Man Standing
First full figure cast. The mold for this was made over a pieced together figure: a head & torso in plaster from a previous “thick figure” cast, then carved/modified & joined to clay legs. I used brush on latex, and a 4 part “Sculptamold” mother mold (took ages to dry, not a good choice of material). Now I have my first complete concrete figure with cast legs. Previous figures had metal bolt legs that I then wrapped with cement fabric, etc.
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The Whole Forest
Halloween
My Whole Forest (not just a tree) consisted of many many leaves treated with Paverpol, two homemade brooches (one tree bark & one treated fabrics cut as a maple leaf & further embellished), various leaf strewn scarves, the mask, a homemade leaf earring, a stone necklace, and a branching & webbed basket of forest creatures (well two singing birds, a hedgehog, & a tiny black cat).
Halloween
Two fabric formed
I think the limbs are just too narrow for the medium, and these will be very fragile & may break immediately, TBD. It was very difficult to get the cement mortar into the arms, hands, feet & ankles. The weight & stress of hanging the material pulls sections tight and it is necessary to poke & push material into the channels. So very much an experiment to see if this scale can work, or if I need larger & thicker forms!
On the workbench
Art Work
Still doing art, but mostly serious grunt work. Outdoor sculpture installation takes some effort: finding the right spot (which includes mock-up & visualization, communication, negotiation, preparation, and more :-), making or customizing an appropriate base, finalizing the method for attaching the sculpture to the base, etc.
Still to come actual transportation & installation!
