Barnacles!!!!! I decided that this was going to be the answer to my 2-dimensional art piece. This week I began with a quest to find single colored ballons. I went to the balloons because they have lip/eyelid like forms that one puts their mouth on to inflate. I wanted to affect this mouth piece in some way. Light them on fire? Grease them up? Put pins along the surface? Fingernails? In the end, I just started sewing. I used some of the long locks I'd chopped off at the beginning of the semester and added some clear acrylic easter grass and the brown shiny stuff found in tapes and cassettes and then I brought in rotting foliage. Yet after all this play with materials and abuse of my digital camera, I realized that all I had were pretty pictures. Soooo.... thinking about how sculpture invites the viewer to experience a piece at a certain proximity, versus photo which orders the experience for the viewer, I came up with barnacles. As of now my plan is to make barnacle-like plaster molds and situate my photographs behind them, so that in order for the viewer to see the photos they have to come up real close and look through the orifice. I was thinking of incorporating smell into this somehow: maybe the smell of rubber, which reminds me of going to the dentist. Ick. At a rummage sale today I bought some plastic mushroomns which I am using to form the plaster, but I'm also thinking about branching into the arena of "other materials". Latex anyone? Still playing around, but working on pulling things together. Should be a fun night/week.
~Nicole
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