Hardened candle wax
Because of it's brittle nature, wax (for me) seemed like an obvious place to start, material-wise. It's translucency and softness reminds me of skin.
Sketchbook: "When I think of cracking, I think about a sort of fragility and vulnerability; whether as an attribute of the human spirit or as physical change, or state of being..."
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| Polly Morgan's 'Morning' (...a taxidermined robin in a sheet of cracked glass) |
Sugar Glass
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| (Heating and melting sugar in a pot) |
Paper Simulating Cracks
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| (Black and white photocopy of scrunched up paper) |
Note: This is just a simple test process, using paper, to create something that maybe emulates the appearance of cracking. The areas/spaces in between the folds, look to me like the cracks in the skin or even in the landscape - seen from high above; a vast desolate landscape of craters and canyons stretching for miles...
Sketchbook: "I have realised that creating something that looks like it has undergone a physical process such as cracking, is entirely different from the action/process itself. I have learnt through this simple test that I am much more in tune with the latter rather than the former...One of the reasons I am so interested in the word 'cracking', is because the very nature of the process allows me the freedom to be less precious about my work. The experimentation is in the cracking, so whatever I make or collect (i.e. materials) only exist in that form for a short length of time before I find a way to crack/smash/damage it. That is why it is extremely important for me to document my process..." .
Cloud Control 'There's Nothing in the Water We Can't Fight'
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