Not much has been happening for the past few days. I'm still reading Offspring, there was a Superbowl party at my sister's place and I happened to land myself some hours from the temp. agency. Highlights from the past few days.
So onto the art, there's been some work on the Brain, the Whale and two other projects shown left and below. I started another Pseudo Sphere months ago, it's a different expansion rate, where the Brain is increased every stitch, this one is increased every fourth stitch. This gives a better idea of what the Brain would look like if you were able to flatten it out in some fourth-dimensional-wibbley-wobbley-timey-wimey way. On a whim I decided to only use blue toned yarns to create this pseudo sphere. I figured using only one chroma would allow for more texture to be seen and cause less confusion when looking at the form. For those of you heading to the google/bing search bar in the corner, Chroma is a term used for a family of colors. So a blue chroma includes all shades, hues and tones of blue. So the other piece is an oblong shaped... thing. I
don't know what to call it. I don't know the name of the hyperbolic plane... heck I don't even know if it is a hyperbolic plane. I started off with a line of stitches and crocheted around the line on both sides and go back and forth doubling the amount of stitches each time. It's like a little hotdog... with the texture of a brain? Well I'll let people decide what they see and allow them to assign an identity to the piece. I kind of wish I had started it off longer, I bet people would wanna put it around their shoulders like a feathered boa. Well the next resin pour is still in the works, I need to find my spring clamps which have, yet again, disappeared. I still have flowers to prep and I want to get them all done at once.
Talked to Dory earlier, and she sent me links for these silicon molds for her charm making. I was thinking about what a great idea this is. Why can't I make cabochons from say buttons or some of my
sculpted pieces? I could cast my own buttons too! That would be amazing! If I could get the method perfected I could get a lot done. Ooooh ooooh then I could cast specific shades and sizes of buttons for my pieces!! I could get very specific gradated tones!! That won't be as much fun as hunting and color matching ( I had this A to D moment where I envisioned hunting hounds and rifles and hundreds of buttons flocking away...) for buttons but it would allow me to get very specific with the colors. That would also mean that I wouldn't have to deal with nasty mothball smelling boxes of buttons. So many ideas are floating around in my head that it kind of hurts. That happens a lot, too many ideas and I can't get them out of my head fast enough. Great, now I have a headache.
I had a great section written out about the next few pieces I want to make, but blogger lost the info. Damn you internet! SO now I get to rewrite it... much shorter. (look! I got another 2 inches done on the whale!)
Well today I pulled of some paintings from their stretchers so that I can reuse the frames. I want to make more beaded pieces like the Whale but using different animals. I like the juxtaposition of the gruesome dead animals to the sparkly and almost cheerful medium of glass beads and buttons. It's almost taboo to make something so dark out of materials that are so cute. But I want to explore this idea of the taboo animals. We're brought up to believe that roadkill is disgusting, diseased and beneath our notice. We don't have emotional attachments to the deer or raccoon or skunk on the side of the road. We also don't treat the animal's body with respect after hitting it at 60mph. Animal control or a licensed removal company take away the carcass and cremate it. More often than not I've seen carcasses left to rot for months on the side of the road until there's nothing left. It's rather odd though. People will go out of their way to take care of their pet's bodies after death, either burying or cremating it, or articulating the skeleton or taxidermy. Because the emotional attachment is there we find ourselves treating the pet with more reverence than that bird that the cat killed in the back yard. I kind of want these pieces to form that emotional bond with people. Force us to see the animal and give a damn about it. Also on a spiritual level, this is like my way of providing a resting place for the souls of those species of roadkill that have no body. Almost like an effigy, just without the burning. I swear I had better text written out than this earlier in the day. Goddammit. Well it will have to do for now. I think I got my point across on what I'd like for people to get out of the next few pieces. If not then leave a comment.
~See Ya'll Later!
So onto the art, there's been some work on the Brain, the Whale and two other projects shown left and below. I started another Pseudo Sphere months ago, it's a different expansion rate, where the Brain is increased every stitch, this one is increased every fourth stitch. This gives a better idea of what the Brain would look like if you were able to flatten it out in some fourth-dimensional-wibbley-wobbley-timey-wimey way. On a whim I decided to only use blue toned yarns to create this pseudo sphere. I figured using only one chroma would allow for more texture to be seen and cause less confusion when looking at the form. For those of you heading to the google/bing search bar in the corner, Chroma is a term used for a family of colors. So a blue chroma includes all shades, hues and tones of blue. So the other piece is an oblong shaped... thing. I
don't know what to call it. I don't know the name of the hyperbolic plane... heck I don't even know if it is a hyperbolic plane. I started off with a line of stitches and crocheted around the line on both sides and go back and forth doubling the amount of stitches each time. It's like a little hotdog... with the texture of a brain? Well I'll let people decide what they see and allow them to assign an identity to the piece. I kind of wish I had started it off longer, I bet people would wanna put it around their shoulders like a feathered boa. Well the next resin pour is still in the works, I need to find my spring clamps which have, yet again, disappeared. I still have flowers to prep and I want to get them all done at once.Talked to Dory earlier, and she sent me links for these silicon molds for her charm making. I was thinking about what a great idea this is. Why can't I make cabochons from say buttons or some of my
sculpted pieces? I could cast my own buttons too! That would be amazing! If I could get the method perfected I could get a lot done. Ooooh ooooh then I could cast specific shades and sizes of buttons for my pieces!! I could get very specific gradated tones!! That won't be as much fun as hunting and color matching ( I had this A to D moment where I envisioned hunting hounds and rifles and hundreds of buttons flocking away...) for buttons but it would allow me to get very specific with the colors. That would also mean that I wouldn't have to deal with nasty mothball smelling boxes of buttons. So many ideas are floating around in my head that it kind of hurts. That happens a lot, too many ideas and I can't get them out of my head fast enough. Great, now I have a headache.I had a great section written out about the next few pieces I want to make, but blogger lost the info. Damn you internet! SO now I get to rewrite it... much shorter. (look! I got another 2 inches done on the whale!)
Well today I pulled of some paintings from their stretchers so that I can reuse the frames. I want to make more beaded pieces like the Whale but using different animals. I like the juxtaposition of the gruesome dead animals to the sparkly and almost cheerful medium of glass beads and buttons. It's almost taboo to make something so dark out of materials that are so cute. But I want to explore this idea of the taboo animals. We're brought up to believe that roadkill is disgusting, diseased and beneath our notice. We don't have emotional attachments to the deer or raccoon or skunk on the side of the road. We also don't treat the animal's body with respect after hitting it at 60mph. Animal control or a licensed removal company take away the carcass and cremate it. More often than not I've seen carcasses left to rot for months on the side of the road until there's nothing left. It's rather odd though. People will go out of their way to take care of their pet's bodies after death, either burying or cremating it, or articulating the skeleton or taxidermy. Because the emotional attachment is there we find ourselves treating the pet with more reverence than that bird that the cat killed in the back yard. I kind of want these pieces to form that emotional bond with people. Force us to see the animal and give a damn about it. Also on a spiritual level, this is like my way of providing a resting place for the souls of those species of roadkill that have no body. Almost like an effigy, just without the burning. I swear I had better text written out than this earlier in the day. Goddammit. Well it will have to do for now. I think I got my point across on what I'd like for people to get out of the next few pieces. If not then leave a comment.~See Ya'll Later!
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