STAGE 2: Ice Experimenting

Ice Experimentation

This project was based on the human body, focusing on the torso and the ribcage. I wanted to replicate the idea of decay, where the softest part of the body decays first, leaving behind the rigid bone. I used ice to act as the skin and flesh, with wire as the ribcage. With the ice melting, revealing the wire ribcage, red marks are formed on the page leaving an imprint of where the ice used to be. The ice was red as it gave it a more gruesome feel, as if it was a carcass or chunk of meat. The inside of the ice seemed to melt first, causing the block to hollow. It created these amazing landscape-like photos as if in a cave.

First Attempt

Inside the Ice

STAGE 1: Mirrored Head Sculpture

One of the first projects I completed during the foundation was based on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. We had to design and make a sculpture that would sit on the plinth. I chose to make a large head which would look down over the plinth and tower over the onlookers, with an almost aggressive nature.
I firstly made the frame of the face using wire, which had wire hoops going both horizontally and vertically. They were attached using bits of wire, which created a barbed effect adding to the heads aggressive nature.

I wanted to add a 'skin' to the head made of shards. I tried out various materials and I eventually used a mirrored plastic, which I painted red on the inside. This was so the outside had a skewered, sharp outside with a red, bloody interior. I used a drennel to drill holes into the shards and used wire to attach them to the head.

Back of plastic painted red

'Shards' attached to wire base

I left the back of the head uncovered so the red inside could still be visible. The rest of the face was completely covered in these mirrored pieces; this is the final outcome.