New context: Cut and Shut

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After Uncensored we got given our new brief called Cut and Shut. This was the opening statement of our brief...


“Sometimes we need to make honest and frank acknowledgements
about our work in order to refine it, or make it more relevant.
Sometimes we need to edit things out, other times we need to bring
new elements into play. Sometimes a combination of both is
required. It’s about selecting/editing, but most of all it’s about
experimenting...”

With this in mind I decided to take a look back at my previous work and have a long think about what works, what needed improving and what needed to be cut out completely. After much thought I think that I have decided to keep my context of looking at the female body in comparison and relation to classical Greco-Roman statue/sculpture. Also, to continue experimenting with colour and how this fluid motion interacts with the audience, the colour and motion can also be looked at in contrast to the plain white sculpture. I want to experiment more in wax and have already started doing so, this is a long process and I have already worked quite a lot in wax in my first year of university so I need to be careful that I don’t continue with the exact same ‘safe’ work.

I have created a series of wax figurines of the female body, similar to my works from last year but in different poses and postures. The body size is also a more natural one. I first had to make the figure from clay and the cast it in plaster. From there I had to pour the wax into the cast and wait for it to set. The process sounds simple but it is more time consuming and delicate that I first thought. Thankfully due to my past experimentation's, etc I was able to do this with ease and it only took me a couple of days to make the three figures. Below are some images of the process and the result. I am excited to explore with this mixed media, using 2D and 3D elements combined.





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