![]() It wasn’t as horrendous as being in the extermination camps, so she survived the war in various prisons. “She was lucky to go into prison rather than a concentration camp because they actually were looked after a little bit better. ![]() My mother was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life in prison. “Her two friends were shot dead immediately. They took a train as far as the Swiss border but they were caught crossing the border. While there she planned with two male friends to escape to Switzerland. Martin explains: “Young people were sent to work in factories. She had a very colourful and interesting life, but also quite tragic.”īefore her studies, at the beginning of the Second World War when the Germans took over Czechoslovakia, Věra was sent to work in a munitions factory in Berlin. My next blog post is going to be about more experimentation with expanding foam & flowers.Martin says: “She was at art college in Zlín and he made the sculpture of my mother and gave it to her as a memory. This left an indent into the plaster and reminds me of fossilized flowers. Overtime the flowers dried out and the petals fell off. This image shows the flowers submerged in the plaster. However it could be interesting to present both together – the inverted plaster mold and the clay slip mold.Īt the same time as creating these molds I was experimenting with expanding foam and flowers, whilst I was waiting for the expanding foam to harden I wanted to see what the effect of pouring plaster over flowers would be. I wanted to explore using the tape alongside different mediums and have come to the conclusion that plaster is more fragile than the clay slip and just doesn’t have the same effect. As I have decided that my tape sculpture is going to be the main focus point of my final piece, I would like to have a contrasting medium to be presented alongside it. Overall, the outcomes from making an inverted mold were not as successful as my clay slip mold where I used the tape sculpture. I feel the rust added some colour to the otherwise grey/white plaster. The photographs show that the reaction between the wire and the plaster made it rust, I presume this is because of the way the water in the plaster mix reacted with the metal. Out of curiosity I decided to dip my wire into the plaster to see what would happen once it hardened. I could also have poured more plaster on the surface of the sculpture to make the layer holding the pieces together thicker & stronger. If I were to redo this plaster sculpture I would definitely try to be more careful when pulling off the tape to prevent the pieces from breaking away. I also find it really interesting that the plaster looks as if it has the texture of scrunched up paper. I am slightly disappointed that the sculpture broke apart as I wanted it to look like a cluster of tubular coral – something I was looking at earlier on in the FMP. As I had expected, some of the pieces broke away however I did manage to leave a few ‘clusters’ together. This was a challenge as the piece was very fragile due to the fact I didn’t put enough plaster of Paris on the top level so there was a very thin layer holding the pieces together. The process itself was very therapeutic as It involved picking away at the masking tape to reveal the plaster inside. The scale of these works are only as big as my honeycomb sculpture, this was just an experimentation as I wanted to see whether the plaster molds would stay joined together so did not want to make them too big as this might make the piece more fragile and then break. To achieve this I mixed up plaster with water and poured into the pockets created from the tape. Whilst the clay slip did work really well and created a delicate honeycomb structure, I wanted to explore different ways of manipulating my masking tape sculpture and decided to create this ‘inverted’ mold using plaster of Paris. I really like the idea that I can develop a completely new piece of work by in a sense ‘destroying’ (burning away the paper) another. ![]() Throughout the project I have been quite interested in and focused on creating molds from my existing artworks, for example I have already transformed my masking tape sculpture into clay by covering it with clay slip and firing.
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