Sunday 28 June 2015

Intuitive Sense of Connection went to the ball....

and it looked good with the disco lights on at the Astral, Crown Perth for the Artitude 2015

Set up:



On the night:




Tuesday 16 June 2015

If at first you don't succeed....

....try,try again....
I am making couple of sculptures in the same mould as Icos and Orbis for Bondi Sculpture by the Sea indoor exhibition. I want one to be reminiscent of the Intuitive Sense of Connection, so I start by carving a triangle that I think will have desired effect (on the left):

The problem with this way of working is that I can't really tell what will it look like until the piece is assembled and taken out of the mould.
So I make a couple of plaster moulds, press out 80 little triangles and assemble them together:

And here we are 3 days later:

I am not happy with the result. the corners of the triangles have pushed in, and I don't like the effect it is producing.
I walk away with the hope that I will like it better tomorrow....
....but nope, I still feel the same.
So there is only one thing to do: start again.
This time I have decided to make a different style mould. Previous one required me to cut the triangles and insert them into the mould (press mould). This time, I'll make a stamp mould:


the one on the left was first, on the right is the new one.
Can you spot the difference?

On the second thought, I left too much plaster on the sides, so I trim it with the saw:

I press the stamp into the clay, and use a cardboard cut-out frame as a guide to cut the triangle shape. It is working much nicer than the first attempt.

And here is the finished sphere.

Yeah, I like this one much more :)