She was a bad egg . .

The technician where I study art made an egg box out of hair and suggested that it would be nice is six student were to make an egg each to go in the box.

I was considering the eggshell I was using and enjoyed its fragility. I thought it would be nice to contrast this fragility in some way. The result . . 

It is made from wax poured into an egg shell. I then embedded nails into the still setting wax. 

A bad egg. 

Audition

While exploring metal work I decided to try a very conceptual piece and see how it turned out.

I was preoccupied with an audition I was going to have in the evening so I made a piece of the audition experience I was having.

Sealed in the metal spheres are negative thoughts I always have when auditioning.

The abstract Goblet represents the play and the love of acting - it is beautiful and strong but at the heart of it are always the doubts. One just has to step back and realise how much stronger the love of acting is than the doubt - just accept the doubt will be there and lock it away.

p.s. apologies for the previously tragic grammar in the above statement, my mind must have been elsewhere while writing it!

. . And The Answer Is . .

The guesses were (thanks everyone by the way!!!!):

Sponge
Styrofoam
Oasis

Plaster

Plaster of Paris

Coral

Cement

Rubber 

Clay

Couch Stuffing

And the answer was:

Porcelain!

Yes, the strange spongy looking thing is made from fine porcelain and is incredibly delicate! 

Because porcelain has to be fired at such a high heat, pretty much anything you put in there with it will be burned into nothingness. So, by putting a porcelain covered something in a kiln, you will only end up with the porcelain with an imprint of whatever you put in there with it (badly written sentence but you get the idea). This can give some really weird results with stuff coming out looking soft, spongy or even wet! Good fun! 

QUESTION TIME!!!!

I challenge you!!!!!

Tell me what this is made out of!

(Unless your one of the people on my course who also made things using this material)

Forest of Different Kind

One result of experimental pieces in plastic.

What do you think?

Material Tests: Wood

As part of my current course we are being given the opportunity to experiment with various materials. I've decided to use this opportunity to try and create items that would not ordinarily be associated with the material.

So, I decided to test how how wood could be used to make jewellery as this is something I have rarely seen.

We'll Ride Them Someday

The results of another photography test day.

This time I was in Wicken Fen and most of my photos are of the semi-wild horses that can be found here.

Here's the link the the gallery (the first 6 are from this shoot) - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/gallery/363200#/gallery/1233793/

Here's my favourite photo of the day - it wasn't the best composition wise but I loved the horses unusual body position too much.