Having been told by the lovely Kate Allen that my homework this particular week was to experiment with salt dough, I went home and started pressing the children's favourite into interesting indents and textures inside and outside the house, much to the amusement of my housemates!
I then tried baking the strange balls, but unfortunately t
hey rose leaving large air bubbles, so like a child I popped these....
....The shapes lay around my room for a few days looking like the above....
UNTIL....
I doodled inside the shapes with ink!
I liked the tension cr
eated between the unever, jagged, and unpredictable edges contrasted with the very deliberate, regimented patterns inside, particularly the chequerboard design. The patterns were all taken from doodles within my
notebooks.
I took
some inspiration for this piece from Gabriel Orozco's practice and way of working.
And particularly his chequerboard skull piece.
CONTINUED:
I did create some salt dough shapes that actually worked- sort of...
These were locks in doors that I pressed the dough into and then painted with gold(which turned green-yuck.) and black ink...
However the best part about these was the way in which I decided to mount them on the wall. Using parcel tape that was to han
d in such a crazy yet controlled fashion ....I really liked.
Perhaps i should use such a style to create a frieze around the space with my buildings photographs....
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