Ok more writing with the pictures ... thanks for all the input. Mieke, Brad, Gab, Christine this writing is for you.... and anyone else reading of course.
Time is flying here at North Lands, the conference is over, having been filled with great lectures, demo's, games, meals, and a scotch tasting (more on all this later), and the new classes have begun .... and we really hit the ground running ........... but first I want to sum up my class with Angela Jarman. This was a fantastic class with lots of skill development in wax working, hollow core casting, various mould making techniques and approaches. For any of you who are not familiar with Angela's work I have included the following images from the internet.
Although Angela's focus is cast glass she also includes cast metal pressure fit incisions in her work. The majority of her work starts with intricately constructed wax sculptures usually derived from found organic materiel. She is interested in both nature and the genetic manipulation of nature through human involvement. Angela often makes one cast as a positive of the worked wax model in black, a colour that she she's as anti-organic, black the colour of death and decay and then goes on to use the mould to create another piece with a hollow core cast where the 'object' that you see through the surface of the glass is actually the negative space inside the clear cast. I would recommend checking out her website: www.angelajarman.com
As someone who is currently going though the process of immigrating to Australia these processes offer a poetic tool to speak of and investigate notions of memory and loss. As an immigrant your focus is often turned toward what is missing rather then what is there in front of you. The clear glass reveals the surface texture, shape, and intricate details of the object that it appears to enclose but what you are actually seeing is only the trace or memory of that object. I have just cut the sprue off and cleaned the mould materials off the surface of my black cast so I will be posting some pictures of it soon.
Hope your all great!
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