PG02 Progress Blog
Kat Lee Hornstein // Ravensbourne // MA Interactive Digital Media
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CYCLE 1
✪ Avatars, Accomplices & Alter Egos ✪
September 20 – October 27 2017
Meanwhile we are simultaneously working on the Skin Sculpture. Here’s the process we’ve developed:
Using sheets of plastic, we pour thin layers of latex and allow to dry. Once dry, pieces are pulled off one chunk at a time and we layer them strategically over the mask print. (We’ve learnt to spread vaseline underneath it; make the process of peeling it back up MUCH simpler.)
The vacuum mould allowed us to create some latext moulds that fit well to the mask (aren’t just flat flaps of latex from a table surface.) The base layer will be one solid latex mask which makes it easy to stick layer after layer on top, for people to peel away.
Variance in skin tone has been tricky but we have a reddish brown now in the mix, and when added in differing amounts to the clearish, yellowish latex we have now, you really get a disturbing fleshy look, which is what we’re going for.
I’ve never worked with latex, this is a new experience.
Its got quite a smell...
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Using sheets of plastic, we pour thin layers of latex and allow to dry. Once dry, pieces are pulled off one chunk at a time and we layer them strategically over the mask print. (We’ve learnt to spread vaseline underneath it; make the process of peeling it back up MUCH simpler.)
The vacuum mould allowed us to create some latext moulds that fit well to the mask (aren’t just flat flaps of latex from a table surface.) The base layer will be one solid latex mask which makes it easy to stick layer after layer on top, for people to peel away.
Variance in skin tone has been tricky but we have a reddish brown now in the mix, and when added in differing amounts to the clearish, yellowish latex we have now, you really get a disturbing fleshy look, which is what we’re going for.
I’ve never worked with latex, this is a new experience.
Its got quite a smell...