Week 5 - Tue 11/10/11 Glue and Cloth Demonstration

 Today we were told to use 1 chair, or more if we liked, to create an interesting sculpture.

To protect them, we then covered them with cling film. This also created some interesting forms over and around the chairs.

Once the entire sculpture was covered, we then began to drape and stretch our mutton cloth and tights over the sculpture.

We then covered the sculpture with a generous amount of watered down PVA glue, paying attention to corners and curves. 

This is our finished outcome, still dripping wet with glue. We spent the rest of the lesson drawing our sculpture and other peoples. Next week we will be putting these on the mannequin.

I found similarities between Bryce Aime's work and to the sculpture that we made today. His work is very sculptural and I imagine that when we take the tights and mutton cloth off of the mannequin, in places it will form a cocoon around the body.

Our sculpture also reminded me of a spiders web. In the photo above a group of artists created this giant spiders web using sellotape.