The new year is fast approaching and I wanted to relate what I’d like to work on in 2011. I have two series in mind, one will include the sculpture ‘Two Figures Pulling Apart’, which will come under the rubric ‘GESTATE’. I plan on doing a number of sculptures and drawings, and possibly a video as well, detailing the transformation of these figures from a single form into two separate beings.
This is a quick sketch of the single entity, the starting point, the two forms will pull and work their way out of:
The second series will be titled “Fossilized Remains of Imaginary Creatures’. I will be inventing as many imaginary creatures as I can and writing histories for them. This series will also be many sculptures and drawings, and perhaps maps, detailing where these creatures lived, if they’re still living, or if they’ve gone extinct.
Here’s a quick sketch I did of the first one:
It’s based on a dream my girlfriend had (Jana is a great sculptor and you can see some of her work at janastockwell.com). The creature must either consume human flesh or wear it in order to survive.
I’ve just started sculpting a skeletal structure for the first creature. It’s still in a very early and rough stage:
My plan is to sculpt the figure in Super Sculpey and bake it. Once the pieces are hard I can lay them into softer oil based clay to form the rock they were discovered in. After that I’ll make a mold and cast them.