Thursday, 28 April 2011
Monday, 25 April 2011
Hello....
So the works really taking shape now, Ive been doing pours of resin round the clock over the last few weeks, and Ive Finely finished the last one...I must have done about 30, So I am now 250kilos lighter in tins of resin...but I have a made a seriously heavy structure ready for slicing up at the sawmill....in terms of weight, we are talking about half the weight of a small car! To be honest I'm chuffed to bits the pouring stage is complete...it gets a bit much after a while...I would imagine its a bit like caring for a large hungry pet you don't live with...maybe a bit like owning a young horse at a near by stables, you need to mix up carefully constructed thick filling feed twice a day at 12 hour intervals and monitor the surroundings and you leave the studio smelling like a chemical factory which is a smell as equally offensive as horse shit. Anyway not sure where i was going with that....sorry...
The visual reward is worth it though, its amazing popping the piece out the mould and seeing a big chunky slab of sculptural potential. So after I cracked the work out its frame I left it to fully cure and air for a couple of days and then today I got some help from a friends little moves company and we drove it to a saw mill out in Humbie, "WindyMains Timber" which are current sponsors of my work. They do a great job slicing up my casts for me. Graham Walker who works for WindyMains has been fantastic and has done almost all of my cross section work so far. So the piece arrived this morning and he was ready to fork lift it away to the next stage of the process..... slicing the slab of resin into 3 large pieces using a massive chainsaw....very rock n roll...
...sorry to disappoint, I don't have any pictures of that yet but there will hopefully be a video up in the next few weeks, once its done and here's a few pictures to put to my words of what Ive been up to over the past few weeks, to keep you going...
Cheers!
Lou
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
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