Testing install options

With a week to go before the preview of the MFA and Culture Lab exhibition next Tuesday evening, today I began to move some models into the gallery. My casts are extremely heavy and require two people to lift them, so I have been using the moulds and scale cardboard models to give me an idea of how the forms work in the gallery space.

Of course, the exhibition is a group exhibition, and so the reading of the work will change in relation to what else is shown. I am very conscious that the space could easily become overcrowded, and so it will be a careful balance.

Layer by layer

Nearly reached the top!

Adding more layers - lime - medium blue - lime

More layers in the bedrock sequence

I continue to follow the order of the geology of the Cheeseburn as indicated on a bedrock map. The colours of each layer of plaster relates to the colour of the rock as per the key on bedrock geology maps.

Playing with bricks

I do not regard the singular brick forms as finished, and have a number of ways that I want to change them and work with them. Although they are still too wet to carve into, saw or polish, they are ok to be moved around and so I can play with how they are placed.

Hovering above the floor