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I think that really getting specific about the materiality of my work will ground my practice a lot. As right now the experimentation I’ve been doing has been concept-lead & (heavily) mixed media.<\/p>\n
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I made a mood board of all the natural materials that first came to mind. I’ve already been using cotton rag paper, which I really like due to the rough edges, but I’d like to get hold of some non-dyed sheets.<\/p>\n
I placed an order on Etsy for hessian and cotton scrim & in the meantime decided to spend the afternoon in the ceramics studio to re-introduce myself to clay. I experimented with an idea I had for a key escutcheon: no edges, just free flowing and disappearing into tendrils climbing over whatever ancient door it belongs too. (Though I haven’t watched the secret garden for years, the idea was conjured from similar subconscious imagery… Perhaps actually from Studio Ghibli’s Howls Moving Castle which I’ve seen more recently.)<\/p>\n
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It was really nice to get back into the ceramics studio, there is something I find very grounding about working with clay. The tendrils of the escutcheon were very delicate and it was quite a fiddly piece to assemble. I couldn’t make it as thin\/detailed as I was originally hoping, but I was happy with the final shape.<\/p>\n
This week I also made a start on a second idea (one I’ve had since last year but never got round to making) to make an antler out of plaster. A red rope tied to it symbolising the Chinese ‘red thread of fate’ – playing with the notion of ecological uncertainty.<\/p>\n
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I was fairly happy with the outcome, although again, I feel like something is missing… I think due to the lack of context…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
21\/10\/22 I think that really getting specific about the materiality of my work will ground my practice a lot. As right now the experimentation I’ve been doing has been concept-lead & (heavily) mixed media. I made a mood board of all the natural materials that first came to mind. I’ve already been using cotton rag<\/p>\n