For a while, I've been collecting cheese wax from my daughter's mini-cheeses. I had a vague idea to use it in a physical version of "Secrets", but it truth it just felt wasteful to bin it! I recently started melting it into neat ingots:
And that made me think about casting it, so on a whim (with a vague idea to use them in another possible art work) I bought a silicon dolls head mould from Amazon and started casting little wax heads:
Aren't they cute? I cast a few more and suddenly had an epiphany - I cast them to almost 'record' the fact that I was there, and alive - their existing shows that I exist... So I think I want to make an art work with them that reflects that, something that is a record - my first (slightly dangerous) idea is to make a mental health diary for a month using them - or maybe abusing them... Each day I will take a head and attempt to decorate/damage it in a way that reflects the state of my mental health on that day. If it goes well, I'll by a 'calendar shaped' (i.e. 7 slots wide and maybe 5 slots deep) display case for them.
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