Concurrent Casting

As a result of attempting to free my mind in order to achieve the type of creation process required for the found object assignment, I ended up creating a rather interesting amorphous wax form using a dipping process to build up texture. Later I went back into the piece and used a soldering iron to create as many crevices as I possibly could without sacrificing the strength of the structure. Eventually I achieved creating what is likely to be one of the most difficult and annoying cast to remove shell from, but that’s what I do. Without at least some level of difficulty I probably wouldn't be very interested in creating the sculpture.


Along with this forced bout of free thinking I came across a personal discovery. While cleaning up the work space I came across a thin piece of wax floating in a tray of water, intrigued by its organic form I began thinking how about I could use the properties of water and wax to create my own organic free form. I then boiled a pot of wax and poured the liquid wax into a large bucket of water; the wax became instantly solidified upon hitting the water. After achieving what I hoped would happen I further experimented with water temperature to see how the wax would react. Hot water allowed the wax to expand more before solidifying while cold water created more constricted forms; as could be expected. I personally favored the outcome of wax poured into room temperature water. The formations remind me of the release of molten lava along the sea floor due to plate tectonics. I assume the lava would react to the water creating a similarly shape form. Within these structures there is so much negative space that it would almost be impossible for myself to cast and clean. So I have yet to find an artistic application for this new found knowledge.


As always more pictures are provide on my webshots site (under the album "Amorphous Figures)----> http://community.webshots.com/user/SocialAwkwardness