Trying to make things that look ancient. 1st experiment.

Hello!

So, after seeing some of Markus Selg - an artist whose sculpture make you feel like you in a museum rather than a gallery. I thought I'd look into some of the artefacts he may have been referencing and decided to make my take on a Boli (here's a small article on them http://www.randafricanart.com/Bamana_Boli_PB.html).

It's plaster and straw. I think I'd like to try mixing some more organic materials into it as with the Boliw themselves; although I can't say I'll be going as far as blood which has been found in some Boliw.

Sorry the location isn't more glamourous but as the figure is LIFE SIZE it is flipping heavy!!!

What do you think?

Chicken wire base.

Back with a vengeance. PLASTER VENGEANCE!

Well, life is distracting. I've had muchos muchos going on recently - shows and projects all getting on top of me and, forgive me, the blog has suffered. But no longer!

I return with a piece made from a medium I haven't posted before: plaster. 

Plaster is weird. Temperamental. Easy to screw up. But if you take some time to get it right - its lovely!

This piece was based on a brief about childhood. I considered how much love I would invest in objects when I was young, something I think as adults we do less and less. I reminisced about toys and building blocks - probably not particularly well kept or expensive but that didn't matter back then - I can remember those objects from when I was 5 (and younger) better than I can remember half the things I've ever bought post 16. 

This piece is supposed to express how much of ourselves we pour into particular objects as a child; an oversized building block with a deep cast of my hand (so deep I was nearly part of the building block quite literally). It doesn't matter that the object is simple and plain - I am a part of it. 

Perhaps we should try and look at our possessions with the eyes of our child-selves once in a while.

We'd probably buy less for a start.