Thursday, 9 May 2013

Cast Development

Taking into consideration the body casts worked extremely well, I wanted to incorporate them within my final outcome.

As I wanted to work with latex, representing 'skin' which I thought would fit very well with the current project, I decided to paint latex into each of the casts which would leave a thin rubbery sculpture of the individuals body.

I had the idea to light these latex body parts up in a dark room, suspended from the ceiling, creating shadows, portraying them in a 'true light' as  the individuals perceive themselves differently to how others see them.  

4 litres of latex ( 4 layers coated on ) was applied to the modrock casts which took 2 days to do, leaving each individual layer to dry for a couple of  hours.
Below: Latex drying inside the modrock plaster casts.




 
Latex out of casts
Washed and drying outside -
 


 

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