1:12 AM 2/2/2011
Since I haven't worked in sculpture for some years, about 47 years to be precise (summer 1964), I feel I am starting from scratch technically as well as conceptually. I have zero idea of where all of this will go. I have no reference point to grow from. I cannot find a way to bring my painting experience into play. So I don't bother to try to find connections between my painting and my sculpture. As with my painting at its beginning, I simply grab the sculpture material and play with it. If I feel a tug to go somewhere with what is happening, I go there. Nothing to loose, everything to gain working this way.
At the moment I am working this way: I soak paper towels and strips of cloth in a plaster mix. Take this stuff and play with it until the plaster sets. Leave it alone. look at it. When the tug comes again, I add more plaster soakings to it. After a bit. I stop. The next day I may work on it again; maybe not. In a week, a month I may work on it again; maybe not. After about 30 days when it is completely dry, I paint it to seal the plaster and to add color to the 3-d experience.
In addition to the soakings, I make castings in plastic bags (the skull forms); make castings using plastisine clay imprinted with canvas texture as bases for some of the soakings. Sometimes I use soakings to make bases for the plastic bag castings.
I also use a paper mache clay. This stuff is great! From the clay I make squeezings. The squeezings reflect my interest in squeezing the clay; feels good; feels like squeezing mud when I was a child. Fun! I also make Plasticine clay imprinted with canvas texture as bases for some of these squeezings.
In the earlier sculpture outings I made spheres of various sizes and used these as a base for soakings. I have made some spheres from the paper mache clay, but I haven't found a use for them yet. So they become parts of small installations and exist along side other squeezings etc.
Finally, I am starting to get involved in multimedia plaster works; adding wood, string, wire, and other materials. Also am interested in sitting pieces on mirrors. The reflections are interesting to me.
This is where I am at the end of January 2011. And the beat goes on!
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Since I haven't worked in sculpture for some years, about 47 years to be precise (summer 1964), I feel I am starting from scratch technically as well as conceptually. I have zero idea of where all of this will go. I have no reference point to grow from. I cannot find a way to bring my painting experience into play. So I don't bother to try to find connections between my painting and my sculpture. As with my painting at its beginning, I simply grab the sculpture material and play with it. If I feel a tug to go somewhere with what is happening, I go there. Nothing to loose, everything to gain working this way.
At the moment I am working this way: I soak paper towels and strips of cloth in a plaster mix. Take this stuff and play with it until the plaster sets. Leave it alone. look at it. When the tug comes again, I add more plaster soakings to it. After a bit. I stop. The next day I may work on it again; maybe not. In a week, a month I may work on it again; maybe not. After about 30 days when it is completely dry, I paint it to seal the plaster and to add color to the 3-d experience.
In addition to the soakings, I make castings in plastic bags (the skull forms); make castings using plastisine clay imprinted with canvas texture as bases for some of the soakings. Sometimes I use soakings to make bases for the plastic bag castings.
I also use a paper mache clay. This stuff is great! From the clay I make squeezings. The squeezings reflect my interest in squeezing the clay; feels good; feels like squeezing mud when I was a child. Fun! I also make Plasticine clay imprinted with canvas texture as bases for some of these squeezings.
In the earlier sculpture outings I made spheres of various sizes and used these as a base for soakings. I have made some spheres from the paper mache clay, but I haven't found a use for them yet. So they become parts of small installations and exist along side other squeezings etc.
Finally, I am starting to get involved in multimedia plaster works; adding wood, string, wire, and other materials. Also am interested in sitting pieces on mirrors. The reflections are interesting to me.
This is where I am at the end of January 2011. And the beat goes on!
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January 2011 new sculpture
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