#developmental images

[ramagestuff]

Salvation Mountain

I’m taken by the vibrancy and the surreal-like atmosphere. But its the pale and vibrant powdery texture that is a result from the paint applied onto the rock, which I find extremely liberating and energetic. I want to push the boundary with ‘rudimentary’ materials using a sophisticated finish.

[ramagestuff]

Creating and Deciding on a Structure

As I spent about a week researching substitute materials I was given the idea of wax. Although I did not have enough time to create a mold I decided to seek technical guidance form the technicians, luckily enough a previous student had created a template shape from plaster that I could use. The idea was to create a mould and later on embellishing though melting the excessive wax ( removed from opening I would create).

This was achieved by waiting a very long time for about 2kilos of wax to melt and then to pour the wax in slowly 'swirling' it around until I received the desire thickness. After the wax cooled down it shrank allowing the wax structure to be removed with breaking( plenty of cold water and patience as well as pulling with care!).

I then created a moat like structure from clay  in preparation for a plaster platform.