Another weekend has come and gone! This was a great one! So I didn't feel affected by Rachel Whitread's work as I was looking at it, but I think it caught up with me today. It seems like every building I entered, I would imagine what a solid mold of any room there would look like. I thought about hallways, the ventilation system, even the inside of the tunnel slide on the playground. The slide mold would look like a giant worm I bet. I found it kind of comical. It kind of made me not take the building so seriously. It's amazing that today I realized something I have been doing since I've been at WSU. I subconsciously revere the buildings here simply because they are part of a university! Though when a building is filled up with plaster or whatever material, they kind of lose their dignity. They become just as functionless as an old abandoned barn. I guess you never really know when something in art is going to hit you and suddenly hold value to you. So unpredictable! I love it.
As for my mold, I have been thinking about what material to use to make a positive of the plaster mold and I am planning on using wax. The way my sculpture looks makes me feel like it is not yet a cloud, but trying to become one. It's on its way. It's pushing really hard to break through and become what it is meant to be. I want to do it in wax (first, at least) because wax is a very moldable material. It is super easy to manipulate into becoming any shape one so chooses and its eagerness to form reminds me of my cloud. Happy Monday!!!
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