It has now migrated into the garden ... (for the other Garden Migration related posts, click on 'Migration into the Garden' in the Series/Themes menu, on the right, below the dates list)
... and inspired another couple of pieces
I love polyurethane foam as a material in sculpture because it is a perfect medium for me to explore the scope and potential of close interaction/intimate dialogue with my material. As I say on my website, 'letting the material speak' (2012) 'bringing the spirit of the material to life, letting the material speak. Investigating the possibilities this opens up.
Fostering the revelation of anything arising spontaneously and not be bound by previously predominant forms '.
Some artists use polyurethane foam to take casts of objects - e.g. pebbles - to then make these casts look like the real thing.
In contrast, my approach is to harness the material's inherent properties - letting the material speak; each material has a voice of its own and I choose to work with it because I like to hear its voice and endeavour to find a response to it.
So my process with polyurethane foam goes something like this: I spray a relatively small amount of foam to form the beginnings of a shape, I put it aside and wait for the foam to expand - sometimes I intervene by nudging it in a certain direction to accentuate the bulbous protrusions or create thread-like connections or holes - and then I return to it to add more foam in the area/areas I want to enlarge. So I talk to it, it talks back to me, and I respond, and so the conversation continues until a satisfactory conclusion is reached. The form guides me all along the way.
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