Playing with plaster

So, we were taught how to make and use plaster...heres some of my experiments....

I used some strechable netting [that that you get in loufer sponges] and coated this in wet plaster, it was a really interesting and easily pliable material to work with.

Then I tried putting plaster in a bag, with the intent of removing the inside after, I love this effect....very Rachel Whitereadesque...

And then some further experiments with the stretchable netting, with the use of nails to hold in place on the wall, I responded to the curves and lines already seen with more pen lines around the shapes.

Pattern....

Experiments with pattern, taken from a footprint found on one of my discarded letters... see sooooooo many earlier works about letters!

Inspired by Lucy Lombardooo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-tWNI0TOI

I was asked to create work influenced by Lucy's work- this video! Which is great and so exciting. It's very different to my own work as I've never created an animation, video or sound piece- a a little daunting too!

I really enjoyed reading through her documentation and looking at her clay shapes, all the pieces were based loosely around dreams, the subconscious and taboos. I was intrigued by her clay "creatures" inspired by someones dream involving eating an umbilical cord of all things!

I tried making feutus's out of clay- even I'm not sure why - will take a couple of photos later, but not so keen on them!

Anyway, I decided to make some strange clay objects too, experimenting even with sleeping with the ball of clay in my hand [ it got gross and I had to give up at like 2 am] but I wanted the clay to have a dreamlike tactile feel. I then transferred some drawings based on objects from within my dreams onto the pieces, but only in certain sections- this drawing from my work with intricate patterns and salt dough last term.

Originally I wanted to present them as "Dreamsticks" like some kind of documentory evidence labelled and laid on a table, but practicalities meant I had no table. BUT. I looove the nails in the wall, I even quite liked them without the clay shapes too. The clay shapes also broke- another problem! BUT again, the fragmentation of dreams actually seemed to make this more interesting to me.