Over the weekend was the opening for Joshua Jackson's show, D.O.P.E. Portal Adventures. As per usual, I'm awful at taking pictures of myself at receptions, but I did actually take pictures from the show. The work and the show were both a lot of fun, but I found myself wanting more out of the work for more of an immersive environment in regards of the installation pieces. The group Josh had recruited were a lot of fun and also included a few people I had already known, such as Ross who walked around the event with a creature bursting from his chest like it was no big deal. (The children were very adamant on removing the creature. The cast filled their own roles well and it was obvious they were having fun interacting with the crowd. Then Ross died.
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As Project 3 comes to an end I went ahead and got started for the final project for class which is the ReMix. I enjoyed the final product I had gotten from Project 2, so I decided to revisit piece but with multiples on a smaller scale. A good portion of class today was spent bending metal while waiting for wood filler to fully cure on part of my piece for Project 3.
Today was my day that I finally sat down and cleaned up the excess metal off of my slugs and got them nice and pretty for the final product of this project. I had also popped the little lads into the sandblaster after I was finished with the grinder to give them a nice matte finish.
I made the executive decision to make more slugs out of different types of clay to add more variation of materials within my finished piece. The slugs are loosely based on real species of nudibranchs.
With the resin sand molds finally being fully cured from last class, I went ahead and prepped for today's aluminum pour. This mainly consisted of some minor cleanup and removing excess sand from the mold before having a graphite/denatured alcohol mixture brushed on.
Towards the end of the class we did a quick pour with enough time to pop out my lads from the mold. While the pieces didn't come out exactly like the clay models, I'm still happy with my final results. |
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