Plaster Post

It has long since my last entry. Nevertheless, I have remained heavily occupied by the realms of academia and health management. As last week was spring break I took the opportunity to do some healthy normal sleeping and visit the Museum of Arts and Design, the MOMA, and the Whitney. The MA&D currently featured exhibit is Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art an collection of work I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciate greatly. I'd highly recommend seeing this show, especially for someone interested in green art. The MOMA has a show on Edvard Munch, and the Whitney is holding the biennial. Despite these break delights I also did my usual work outs, nude modeled, personal research, planned my fall schedule, organized computer files, socialized, worked at Home Depot, planned future/ hypothesized artwork, prepared for the upcoming sophomore review; over all returning order back to my life all just lose control again for the next six weeks. Preceding the break I was on average sleeping 3 hours every other day, had been eating will sleeping (a combination of sleep walking and eating while doing so), spending an enormous amount of my time in the studio. Now as the spring track season is about to pick up I must resort back to maintaining a better state of health, which will ultimately result in a forced down sizing of my art ideas.
Currently in sculpture we are working in plaster, using materials such as clay to make easy and simple molds. Using the remaining parts of a found doll featured in my only short film, “Robot Movie”, as well as another trash treasure doll of 3ft proportions I am incorporating chicken wire, hair, and plaster into doll part molds. I am looking to achieve some sort look of decrepitating body structure. Considering the state of dismemberment the “Robot Movie” doll already happens to be in, after a terrifying run in with a paintball gun, I thought I would reconstruct the doll’s body using the materials mentioned above to fill the hollow cavities of the remaining body parts to sculpt an altered reconstructed body. To make the constructed parts look as though they are exposed muscles, tendons, and fat I will mix in an iron oxide pigment and dilute it somewhat to achieve the play of deep reds and whites in various areas better resembling muscle and fat. Those are the plans as of now, as mentioned before my ideas often are a bit too ambitious and so for the sake of my health this may not be plausible, but we’ll see. However, if I happen to die while sky diving on Sunday this all wont make a bit of difference, lets hope for the best.

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