Friday, November 19, 2010

Apparently Wax Isn't Any Easier

Please, don't touch my crock pot full of hot wax.

Wax is fun, building the mold on the other hand lacks the level of 'fun' involved.
It's tough to try to envision what this wax sculpture will look like as the mold is being built, but it's that sense of the unknown that I find quite intriguing.  Once the molds built its up to the wax to do the rest. Cool down. Harden. Be removed...seems simple.
Luckily I sealed the edges of the mold well enough that there was no wax leaking out everywhere.  But, unfortunately how the model was planned to come out did not occur.  What was supposed to come out as one large piece, came out in 9 different pieces.  The chipboard did not remove from the interior sections of the model as well as the outer boundaries, thus causing cracking.  Through this event a new way to explore the space formed in between the separate pieces was brought to mind.



If it's in 9 pieces...make it back into 1, but how?
      Adding more wax. Of course.
But!,
This time with some color added with crayons that are melted into the wax before it is poured.  Currently I am experimenting with different ways to synthesize the plain wax and colored wax so not to be over powering or obnoxious to the viewer.

This method of model making, or 'drawing', is actually quite enjoyable.  It allows the mind to remove itself from normalities, such as drawing on paper, to what a drawing is in the space that is the paper...or in this case, the space of........whatever you mind desires.

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