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Climbing blurs

Acrylic on polythene 

Unearthing the fall

Sculpting ceramic sculptures has become one of my favourite mediums this year and I hope to continue it after I graduate.

I have vivid memories and dreams of growing up as a child and experiencing many new factors of life such as new tastes, sounds textures and of course emotions. I still remember the first boy I had a crush on, he lived next door to me and I recall pestering him badly. I remember watching him play football and I would hide and wave from the fence. Of course, as any boy at his age would and having no interest in girls what so ever found me extremely annoying.

One afternoon I went to see him play football again, I watched him as he ran out of his garden and towards me. I ran faster than I thought I could but I was still too slow, he then pushed me into a muddy rock garden outside my door. The taste of soil and plants filled my mouth, I watched him run off laughing. 

This event marked the first day of rejection and heartbreak for me.

The taste of earth is horrible, I sometimes dream about drowning in it. I felt that I should express this emotion in the form of sculpture using clay. I want the sculpture to look innocent and quite but at the same time to remain a vesil containing a deep hurt.

This is a group of photos of the sculpture at its second firing stage.

What are you staring at?

 After the Christmas break I began creating another clay sculpture. I wanted the sculpture to be sitting in a pool of water and staring at his own reflection. The creature that I created has no arms and yet he has some how managed to put make up on his own  face...or did someone else do it for him? The rest of his body is black, along with the water and the white mound in which he sits in, the rest of the sculpture is very monochrome and so the only colour to be seen is if you peer into the water to see his rather glum face.

I really enjoyed making this ceramic sculpture. I created three little maquettes so I could decide which colours to use on his face. 

I then tried the tests with the mirror. 

Over all I was pleased with the tests and it allowed me to plan the mound/volcano that the sculpture would sit in. The base for the sculpture would have to be both water tight and strong enough to support the heavy sculpture itself.

Here are a few shots that I took of my sculpture after its second firing process in the Kiln room. There was three firing processes in order to make the final body, it weighs a tone! 

I'm pleased with the facial expression and the slap dash make up job. The pencil  circle that you can vaguely see under the sculpture is the size that I want the pool to be.

Final run...

University is coming to an end. The Degree show opening night is on the 17^th of May and there is sadly no more time to be making new pieces of work! The stress and tension is starting to build between us all and it's times like this that I could do with a break. Apart from all the deadlines I am enjoying every last day at University. Here are a few pictures of what I have been up to...

Here is a quick view of my studio space, I have started to wrap my frames in bubble wrap and I have stacked my chosen paintings together.

This is a piece that I done near the start of the second semester. The mediums I used are acrylic paint, felt pen and the surface that I painted on is polythene. I enjoyed painting on the polythene as it was really easy to move the paint around and If I didn't like the end result I could simply wipe it away with a damp cloth.