mooresk1323738x: 2013

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Pyrotechnic Print Making

Pyrotechnic Print Making

Inspired by the work of Cuban born artist Ana Mendieta, who first created prints using her own body in the earth (depressions in soil or mud or traced outlines), or created the shape of her body in the outdoor environment, and then set fire to the resulting shape. Mendieta filled depressions with inflammable liquids, traced the edges of her depressions with gunpowder or set fireworks around the human form she had built.

As Mendieta's work of this type was mainly outdoors it did not lend itself well to preservation and therefore it exists mainly as a photographic record.

On a very small scale, and using indoor pyrotechnics on a wooden platform which would record the imprint of the pyrotechnic event, I have created a series of photographs and prints inspired by Mendieta's work.

Wooden board with indoor pyrotechnics positioned on them before lighting

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During the pyrotechnic event.

The long black carbon strands expand from small pellets.

The light flash pellets have created small burns on the wooden surface.

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During the pyrotechnic event.

Sparklers and flash pellets.

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After the event, the detritus cooling.

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Pyrotechnic Print.

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Scorched Wood

113cm x 40cm

Carbon Snake

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Indoor pyrotechnic after-burn

The Flaming Dragon

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Crushed carbon on paper

26cm x 20cm

The Flaming Dragon Shadow

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Crushed carbon on paper

26cm x 20cm

The Flaming Snake Shadow

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Crushed carbon on paper

26cm x 20cm

The Flaming Snake

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Crushed carbon on paper

26cm x 20cm

Monday, 18 November 2013

Ceramics- The Rhinos of Venice.

The Byronoceros.

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Ceramic and oxide.

39cm length.

Lord Byron swims the Venetian Grand Canal as Clara the Rhino.

Moulded hollow clay balls to assemble into stylised rhinos.

The assembled balls with added details.

The second set of stylised rhinos.

The winged rhino representing Venice's patron saint, St. Mark, whose emblem is the winged lion.

Brightly coloured glazed stylised rhinos.

Sculpted wet clay rhino, modelled on Clara, the pet rhino of Venice, thought to be the first in Europe.

Greenware rhino, showing scale against the artist.

After bisque firing, the application of oxides and carbonates provides the range of colours and highlight the textures.

A covering of transparent glaze before the second firing disguises the colours of the oxides and carbonates.

The finished work.

A rhino sculpted in wet clay, again representing the Venetian rhino Clara. The addition of wings is in reference to St. Mark, the patron saint of Venice, whose symbol is the winged lion, seen all over Venice.

Inside the Raku kiln

Raku firing technique for a metallic reduction of a Fume coating on the sculpted St. Mark's rhino.

Close up detail of the cooled Raku St. Mark's rhino.

A 'half' rhino, sculpted in wet clay. The top half is visible as the rhino is sculpted as being semi-submerged, reminiscent of the occasion when the poet Byron, a famous Venetian resident for some time, swam in the Grand Canal. Clara was often bathed in the Grand Canal.

This sculpture only underwent one firing with the application of copper carbonate and manganese dioxide.

Front view of 'half' rhino.

A wet clay rhino rib cage over a hump mould.

Failed firing!

Photography of Fireworks 2013

Photography of Fireworks

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2013

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Print in Three Dimensions

In Preparation for the reveal of the first stage of printing in 3D

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The bubble-wrapped sheets prepped with red ink

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Before the printing

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Reflect

Mirror, glass, ink and Paper

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Journey Project for Drawing

Around the city of Leicester, what do journeys have in common if not, at the most primitive level, feet.

I walked about the city taking photos of the feet of statues and began a drawing...

A Break 2013

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Graphite on paper

The feet of a statue in Leicester City centre

A small ornament's feet outside a Florist's in Leicester

Crucifixion Feet of a wooden statue. St Peter's church, Leicester.

As I continued to explore the concept, it became apparent that an imaginary journey was a more appealing than an actual walk around a city. I therefore looked back to my Catholic upbringing for inspiration and the Christian journey through life specifically.