Monday, January 12, 2009

Floppy work





I have managed to get the new rubber piece. The rubber is actually neoprene rubber. It is a relatively soft even for this material. I used Copper hog rings to put it together. Often I have to live with a work for a while to see which direction it will go. In this case I have several ideas. One is to have the sculpture start off in the collapsed form, as in this photo. It collapses very nicely. A clockwork mechanism will slowly pull the work upright to the point where it is totally suspended then it will slowly return to the colapsed state. The whole process would take 6 hours or so. a person seeing it in a gallery would see it in one form or another but probably not both (collapsed and extended).

The other way to take this is to extend the concept of the copper/rubber material into the idea of conductor/ insulator. One thought here is to create a copper frame on which to stretch the rubber sculpture.