The process of creating this final piece involved, collected images of burning materials, these images shows decay and destruction. I’m interested in this because my artists Rachel Whiteread and Alberto Burri also Jason Salavon have these themes in their work.
I found my most accomplished image had the best focus and composition, I then took the image through lots of process to decay it, and this included burning, ripping, collaging and layering plaster over the images. I was really interested in Rachel Whiteread how, she encases libraries and books in stone. The reason she does this is because she is discussing books and keeping their secrets locked away. Within history there is censorship and secrets are locked away, the statement she is making in her work is showing this. The reason why I wanted to do this is, as a GCSE History student I am very interested in the Holocaust and the Second World War, so this gave me the inspiration to burn and destroy objects just like the Nazi party did to the Jewish race. |
How did I get to this stage
To get to the final stage, I went through lots of different steps to get to it. I tried lots of different methods to try and figure out what would work best. To get to the final piece, I used different materials such as plaster of paris and Modroc.
The reason for doing these two materials was to see which of these materials would work the best as a large panel. What I did was created some smaller panels to do a little experiment to see which of these materials work the best. With the plaster of paris, I mixed up a small of amount of the plaster, and poured it into a small paint tray. Once I done this I ripped up some newspaper and layered them on to the plaster, to give the affect that the newspaper has been set in rock. Then I placed one of my images on top of the plaster. Once the plaster was set I decided to try and make the plaster look as old as possible, to do this I got some coffee and water colours, I used the coffee and painted the plaster with it. I then, with the water colours, I made some of the sections darker to look as if they had been affected more.
I did the same thing with the Modroc but I had to cut up strips of the Modroc and dunk them into water and placed them on to a small paint dish, then I place small amounts of newspaper on top of this, I repeated this a couple of times. Then I placed another one of my images on top of this.
The reason for doing these two materials was to see which of these materials would work the best as a large panel. What I did was created some smaller panels to do a little experiment to see which of these materials work the best. With the plaster of paris, I mixed up a small of amount of the plaster, and poured it into a small paint tray. Once I done this I ripped up some newspaper and layered them on to the plaster, to give the affect that the newspaper has been set in rock. Then I placed one of my images on top of the plaster. Once the plaster was set I decided to try and make the plaster look as old as possible, to do this I got some coffee and water colours, I used the coffee and painted the plaster with it. I then, with the water colours, I made some of the sections darker to look as if they had been affected more.
I did the same thing with the Modroc but I had to cut up strips of the Modroc and dunk them into water and placed them on to a small paint dish, then I place small amounts of newspaper on top of this, I repeated this a couple of times. Then I placed another one of my images on top of this.