Sculpture : More of the same...

I took this brief as an oppurtunity to explore various media that I may not have touched on in the past, such as Video and Sound.  This was a deliberate choice on my part and an obvious one: to make work in different ways - to take a risk with this project, to learn and develop, and grow as an artist.

Sketchbook - Film Sequences
How does slate break up? What happens when I film it? The method, the process and the result.

The Video

(wore a helmet, of course...)

*****

Andy Goldsworthy

(will update with research here soon)

And my resulting experiments...

Hardened clay (dried out in an ordinary oven) covering a scrunched up ball of brown paper.

My original plan was to film the hardened clay ball being hurled at a wall and smashing, but instead I dropped the piece by accident.  At the time I had only made one (and this itself had taken several hours), so I photographed it and found that I liked these results even better; each crack and each fold of hardened paper could be seen so clearly through the power of the lens - I would definitely have to look into working with photography before these two weeks were up.

And going off on a bit of a tangent...

(recycling some of the crumpled paper from earlier in the week...

...and covering it in wax)

Not so much of a success, but enlightening; the wax didn't crack like I would have hoped.