For William Buckley, because I promised him these pictures.
Today, my time/memory sculpture was assessed and underwent the grueling and/or tedious procedure that is group critique. Actually, group critique wasn't too bad, not for my piece anyway... But waiting for my turn was deeeaaath... Especially since I was last to go. Good thing my piece was brilliant :P
What I did was basically covered a beach ball in white paraffin wax, then I melted onto it my brown wax casts of my object, which are like swirly icing caps.
Yes, it's a rather large, incomplete sphere around 70 cm in diameter. This picture is actually the aftermath of its undoing (will explain, read on), as you can see, it's broken, it's collasped a bit in the sides.
It was hung on the wall and an insanely strong spotlight was placed inside the ball/mounted to the wall. I ushered everyone into the pitch-dark installation room, then I turned the spotlight on, which resulted in "oooh"s and "aaahhh"s all-round. I've got many comparisons, some say it looked like a twisted Ikea light, many said it looked like a sun or a star about to burn out. Some even said they looked like a cluster of breasts (it was Margaret, our lecturer, who suggested it, no kidding.) I wanted to imagine that it was an egg dividing in a mother's womb. I'm nuts.
Same thing here, but you can clearly see the wire that the ball's hung up by and the spotlight's wiring. I thought it added to the look. I also encouraged people to go over to look at it closer, to touch it and to feel the heat emanating through the wax. And unsurprisingly, the wax started to melt under the heat of the insanely strong spotlight. Apparently my audience did not expect it, as they started to quieten down a fair amount...
The wax drips from the inside slowly and innocently... Finally, it starts to cracked in the middle, and the light pours out and throws itself upon the high ceiling. It was a brilliant example of a performing object or kinetic sculpure if I ever saw one. I combined the elements of a time object and movement and decay over time... I'm expecting a distinction, at least!
It was really rather beautiful if I don't say so myself... I wished you were there :)
What I did was basically covered a beach ball in white paraffin wax, then I melted onto it my brown wax casts of my object, which are like swirly icing caps.
Yes, it's a rather large, incomplete sphere around 70 cm in diameter. This picture is actually the aftermath of its undoing (will explain, read on), as you can see, it's broken, it's collasped a bit in the sides.
It was hung on the wall and an insanely strong spotlight was placed inside the ball/mounted to the wall. I ushered everyone into the pitch-dark installation room, then I turned the spotlight on, which resulted in "oooh"s and "aaahhh"s all-round. I've got many comparisons, some say it looked like a twisted Ikea light, many said it looked like a sun or a star about to burn out. Some even said they looked like a cluster of breasts (it was Margaret, our lecturer, who suggested it, no kidding.) I wanted to imagine that it was an egg dividing in a mother's womb. I'm nuts.
Same thing here, but you can clearly see the wire that the ball's hung up by and the spotlight's wiring. I thought it added to the look. I also encouraged people to go over to look at it closer, to touch it and to feel the heat emanating through the wax. And unsurprisingly, the wax started to melt under the heat of the insanely strong spotlight. Apparently my audience did not expect it, as they started to quieten down a fair amount...
The wax drips from the inside slowly and innocently... Finally, it starts to cracked in the middle, and the light pours out and throws itself upon the high ceiling. It was a brilliant example of a performing object or kinetic sculpure if I ever saw one. I combined the elements of a time object and movement and decay over time... I'm expecting a distinction, at least!
It was really rather beautiful if I don't say so myself... I wished you were there :)