Direction

  Theres only 6 weeks till the exhibition. After talking with Tom today he helped me to focus on a direction of travel. Doing more work with the embossed aluminium taking traces from grave stones. Again working in the themes of print, traces transference.

He suggested making multiples and attaching them together. As a sculpture piece.

I like the idea of making something with them- a suit of armour?  Ambitious, maybe but the idea of a defence against death/ grief/ mortality.

Or just a big wall hanging?  Riveted or tied together.

For the moment I will focus in making lots of the small embossed pieces from places visit.

I'm going to York this weekend for a gig but also chance to research suits of armour, Vikings  ? Ritual and death and also go to cemetery there and make some embossing/ rubbings.

Be nice to totally recycle the the tomato puree tubes but I won't have enough. I've ordered some aluminium sheets from amazon. The copper I brought wasn't payable enough. I'm gutted as I wanted to to the patina effect that's not achievable on aluminium.

However I could rust the aluminium or treat it in some way. Or maybe the gold bright colour is going to work? 

Lots to play around with. Not much time so really focus on getting lots of aluminium pieces made now, I know the aluminium works well and also can get ample supplies at reasonable cost so will continue with this material as time to experiment is over.

I'm experimenting here with the copper toned aluminium, brought a pack of gold ad a pack of copper colour from amazon( I don't like the copper colour as its more of a red and looks tacky so won't use it for final project but it's the same material as the gold one so good for trying it's properties. I've traced from a grave rubbing to see if it would work better than a direct trace from the stone ( as the stone sometimes rips through the soft aluminium) however i don't like this tracing as its not a direct print and it didn't pick up the definition or texture so I'd rather risk a few rips and imperfections to gain the texture and authenticity of the direct print.

I will experiment with weathering the aluminium. I will also research suits if armour or other defensive structures or clothing that I could sculpt the embossed pieces into. Also look at the artist Tom suggested.