I carefully removed my first miniature thickets from their mould this morning. As a finished product, it falls far short of the mark, but as a prototype, it is a very promising start:
Clearly there is a lot of work to do here, exciting work! The cube is super-weird, but it's the first time I feel I've gotten close to what I had with epoxy in terms of light, and the feeling of something trapped in time - or here, trapped in glass and plaster
But...
But should I really be embarking on this escapade? Shouldn't I be working on my submission for the final show? Surely I have lots of time... But I KNOW how my mind works... I'm getting excited on these little plaster cubes of weirdness... And soon I'll forget all about Open Casket, and going back to it will seem like a terrible imposition.
Some would say that's because I've moved on from it... But I don't believe that - I am still, at heart, a pragmatist. I know if I put my little cubes aside, and go back to prototyping Open Casket, the love will quickly return. I'm not moving on, or falling in love, I'm stalling because the 'easy' decisions for Open Casket are mostly made, and I don't want to have to face the hard decisions that require prototyping and compromise, and angst.
But I must!
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