My project was about drapery and how I feel protected when I am wrapped in big clothes or blankets. I had also been looking at different ways fabric can move, so I included strange elements of movement into the project. As I move forward in the rest of the semester, I want to keep these things in mind, but focus a little more on the trace of a form and gesture in fabric without the body underneath.
I was interested in the drapery I saw in Renaissance paintings, and I started by trying to replicate it with soft, knit fabrics draped over a wire armature. These experiments taught me that while the drapery appears soft in the paintings, the only way to acheive that affect is for the fabric to be hard. I had a break through when I put plaster over one of the pieces of soft fabric and it was easy to drape it over forms and then it would dry and stay in place after I took the form out from underneath.
For my project, I created four of the sketches of drapery from my sketchbook out of fabric covered in plaster and spray painted gold. I connected the pieces to the wall with rubberbands and I held strings that moved the sculptures in unexpected ways.
I am going to continue with this concept and take the positive elements to expand them into more successful sculptures that sit in the round. I want to drape fabric and plaster over a person so we get the trace of a body and its gesture, but the only thing that is left is the protective fabric layer. Also, I intend to cause movement in the forms in more successful ways than I had in my midterm project. I am interested in the suggestion of movement through gesture or shadow when something is stationary. I'm sure that the next half of the semester will help my ideas develop and evolve as they did throughout theme sequence so far.
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