Monday 8 April 2019

New tasks, New material

At this stage I need to bring new materials into this project; I can't accurately describe the sensations I am thinking of with just bronze, crank and porcelain. I think that I want to avoid working with terracotta because it is so messy and has a quality to it that I want to avoid. I have ordered paper clay and will try that out for some of the larger formations like lungs, but it is very much an experiment. I also bought some PMC  (precious metal clay) which is clay impregnated with silver, which is left behind when the body of the clay is burned out. I have been experimenting with that but so far found it very hard to work with. It has the texture of porcelain, which is already hard to work with, but my intentions are to work with it on a very small scale, which is difficult without specific tools. I have made a few small tester sperms, and I will fire those before I continue to work with the PMC because it is hard to really know the limitations and potential of the material without seeing the fired results. 

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