work at home

over the last week or so, i had been keeping myself busy at home when i couldn't get to livingston to work in my studio. in doing so, i started to create these strange amorphous cardboard structures, composed simply of cut cardboard and hot glue. i'm not sure what my plans for them are at the moment, but i would either like to join them and create one very large form or make several forms of different sizes. for this process, i have not been trying to direct the process, but rather, to let the process direct what i create. i'm adding to them just as i have been since i began them, adding cardboard to areas that need to be built up, with a piece that seems to fit well from the pieces i had cut beforehand.

i moved them to LAB over the weekend, as they are growing exponentially and wanted to get them to an area where i could better work on them, before i couldn't transport them easily. i also have access to better hot glue guns there, to expedite the process.

design and observations

i have also been drawing/sketching/looking at/thinking about patterns. whether created or found in nature, abstract, geometric, or composed of fractals. a lot of these have to do with expanding and contracting, as well as ratios, specifically (fractal-wise) concerning the golden ratio or golden spiral.




i also tend to find inspiration in things i see in my travels. yesterday i came across this on livingston and had to document it. it seemed to me to be straight out of dr. suess's the lorax.

studio workk

after losing my phone, and all the pictures of my current studio projects, here's a look at some of things i've been getting into lately.

i have been making plaster casts, as well as casting resin. i started casting the inside of plastic bags in plaster, using a hollow cast method. these resulted in very fragile, delicate pieces.



i also tried this process with resin; one an open bag form which took much layering and time to build up, the other, a much smaller experiment which did not turn out as i had expected, but still yielded interesting results.




recently, i decided to try and combine the two materials. some of these experiments simply entailed coating plaster in a layer of resin, and also playing with resin dyes on both the plaster and the resin itself to play with color as well as form. i have also been submerging/encasing plaster casts in larger casts of resin.





i then decided to play with mixing both wet plaster and wet resin together to see how they affected one another. the previous plaster/resin pieces used set plaster and wet resin.




another plaster/resin experiment involved using rubber/latex pieces to produce casts, as the materials do not stick to one another once set. here are some of these casts.