Victory!

Last week before Spring Break... came back from a weekend with mom and grandma having no idea where I was going with the piece. At the train station a wad of Double Bubble on the sidewalk caught my eye and I went on a quest for it in Florence. I decided to cast the inside of my mouth with the rubbery, scently candy. I had also left some aluminum casts of my mouth with glue in them drying over the weekend. I realized that peeling the glue had no adverse effect on the forms of the mouth they had uptaken, so I put two and two together, combined the glue and bubble gum molds/casts and created these miniature little nuances which I then placed on plaster casts of the crevices on my body ( pelvic bones and between the ribs). Stuck these in the nook behind my desk. I wanted people to get up close and personal with the detailed little buggars so I set up a type of bed area before the exhibition space in the wall, and presto: we had ourselves a piece. With all the exploring I did to try and come up with a concept, I'd say I have quite a few ideas burbling up there that walk along the same road in terms of materials, forms, and what not. Wrote them down so as not to forget, but who knows how long my attention span and passion for these will last. At any rate, what a satifying first half of the semester this has been. Thanks Jana!
~Nicole