So extended essay, fun. Got a few path ways to explore, looking at how mundane objects can trigger a memory or an object connect a group of people together. I am also interested in the difference between value and worth, the majority of the time our most sentimental possessions are of the greath financial worth but we would be lost if anything were to happen to them.
So my library account is max'ed out.
Hello plaster, hello slip, ohh how I have missed you messing up my jeans and trainers!
Again concentrating on the idea of memory, I wish to carry on from an idea that started at the end of my last project. I have previously took slip and by exploiting its delicate fragile nature, drawn similarites between that an old letters. Towards the end I started to use letter stamps to create messages on the clay surface that were most visable when held up to a light source.
By using different process I want to investigate texture and line quality of messages, or images, trapped within the clay.
Today I looked at using artists masking fluid in different ways to create different depths, some very subtle, under parts of the slip.
As the slip was drying quite slow- for various reasons due to materials not being in use- the wax within the fluid did split the slip. I need to try this test again in better conditions to ensure that the time of drying could stop the split from occuring.
I also tried putting droplets into a bowl mould, so hopefully I shall see the outcome of this over the next few days. I have an idea of using salt or sugar on a flat surface to draw images. We all sit in cafes and play with the salt, spilling it over the table and drawing with it. In one breathe your image is gone. This sits very close to the thought of memories and moments passing by wuickly and not being able to savour all of them in the detail that we would like to.
