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.