Had a talk with one of my tutors today. She really likes my work so I'm very pleased. Although I really need to work on my notebooks.

I discussed adding more to the paper hangings I did last Wednesday and she gave me some helpful suggestions. I have photo copied a number of A3 sheets of the marks made by my nephew and sister while they were listening to music and stuck them down on paper. I plan to cut around the shapes, making it look almost like a giant stencil, onto something like Chris Natrop's work, but also place wire behind the piece to give it structure and make it handy for me to bend it like the last ones. 

Last night I made my own marks while listening to music. Something I should have done at the beginning of the whole experiment... Don't know why I didn't, silly really!!

The first three images are marks made while listening to music by a band, The XX. The songs crystalised and intro. This music gives a much more softer feel to the marks then aposed to the last two images, where the marks are rougher. Here I listened to Mason's Apron by the Dubliners.

Ears and Wool combined.

First I placed the plaster of Paris moulds within the wool. When I had the wax moulds finished I placed all eight of the ear moulds into the smaller installation of wool I have in my studio space, rearranded them and took photos. Afterwards, I brought five of the wax ear moulds down the stairs to the bigger wool installation and placed them withing that one.

 



 

 

 



Bigger wool!

This is the larger scale version of the linking wool I did by the side of the stairs in college yesterday evening.

 

 

Wax ear moulds done!

Used the wax pot in the material store of the college today. Mixed wax and pigment together and placed it in the silicone moulds. Here are the results just after popping the wax outta the silicone. I cleaned them up later, just trimmed the edges with a sissors and pulled off some of the paper that acted as a barrier of the wax on the silicone, it made it eay for it to pull away.

 

 

Silicone of Ears

 

Have to go down to the Material Store tomorrow morning to start building them up with wax.

Visual Sound

 This is what I have up so far. The images of the strings are to express the visualisation of sound.

 

 

  

 

Here is the back of the head in plaster of paris to be attached onto the face.

I printed off A3 size versions of the marks made by the plucking of strings and began sticking them together, cutting around the linear shapes and sticking wire behind them.