As part of the Inside out project i had to produce a painting and sculpture. For the sculpture part of my project my initial idea was to incase sentimental objects inside of a box. The way the audience would view the objects inside would be through eye holes as if you’re looking through the eyes of the painting. The objects inside would be distorted and destroyed through a web of black string to signify hurt, upset and bad memories.
After i had collected a few sentimental objects i didn’t mind being destroyed i was looking at them trying to decided what ones i would end up using. I then started looking at two different sized plush hearts that had been given to me by an ex boyfriend. While looking at them i got the idea of stitching them together with the black string and dipping the whole thing in latex to add another skin over the top of it changing the whole object into a distorted form. I felt this would be more visually interesting than the objects inside of a box.
To start the progress of making the sculpture i stitched the two hearts together using the black wool. I added a lot of the string to make the centre of the object much more crowded and dark.
I started layering the string and hearts with thin layers of liquid latex and dried in-between layers to make the process go a lot quicker. I originally started layering the latex on with a paintbrush however i found it a lot more efficient to just use my finger to spread the latex more evenly.
When i wasn’t getting my desired effect from layering the latex i then hung it up so that i could pour more latex onto it at once and left it for a couple days to dry. Once it had dried i liked the drips that had formed onto the larger heart however the smaller heard had dried very smooth and shiny which was not the effect i wanted. i built up texture on the smaller heart by adding latex onto the small heart and letting it partially dry and rubbing it to add in a more bumpy uneven texture.
To hang the sculpture i hung it from some string that i had also covered in latex so that it had the same texture as the sculpture. i attached the string onto a shelf bracket however this wasn’t how i wanted it to originally be hung but i was struggling to get it hung up any other way so this is what i went for in the end
Maeve Dawson Art 