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it’s pointless (brooches)
Amelia Pascoe. 2010. Resin, Sterling Silver, Paint
Posted in F-Final Pieces
And so I come to the end (or rather perhaps a beginning?)
I decided not to fight the bubbles, but to embrace them, and to see where they took me. Lots of experimentation. Resin cast polystyrene balls, transparent plastic vacuum forms, silicon casts, resin casts dipped in paint, dipped in silicon. Lots of mounted shapes and forms on wires and hanging from strings to allow wet surfaces to drip and dry and set. It all started to look like a bit of a landscape, in some strange alien land.
And it got me thinking.
There was a hint of a suggestion that bleublweblaoblawblaewazblablarblablaeblaed may have some connection to a language. Not like any language I have heard before …but maybe a spell? …or the speak of the people from a far off distant world?
A landscape and a language.
I bet Dr Seuss would have had something to say about that.
And I wondered what language they spoke in the Pointless Forest where round-headed Oblio and his faithful dog Arrow were exiled, only to discover everything has a point, even when it has no point?
And I looked again at my minature land, and saw that I had a world of pointless objects waiting for translation.
And it was just a matter of deciding which one to choose (first)…
Posted in E-End point Statement
…but i should go back a bit. so it all started with some bubbles.
actually it really all started with the text.
bleublweblaoblawblaewazblablarblablaeblaed
ok. so this is interesting. could that actually mean something? nah. its definitely made up. but maybe its got a hidden meaning? play round with the letters and crack the code? i LIKE those games!…………..nope…nothing coming. what about the font? looks like it might have been written using ink. thick splashes at the top of each letter dripping down to the bottom. hmmm. what about the diacritics above the vowels (yep google says thats what they are called) do they give me any clues? what languages use those? ….just tried to say it out loud. pretty hard to get it right, but the sound reminds me of bubbling, boiling mud …or porridge. that’s cool. can’t wait to get my material. that should add some further dimension.
and then the materials arrive…. and its a little plastic bottle filled with detergent and a plastic hoop so i can blow bubbles (which i do). and its wrapped in bubble wrap.
what is this?! a conspiracy? already working on a theme reminiscent of bubbles (think alien sea creatures, atomic structure, and …well bubbles). i was really looking forward to something that would throw me in some new direction. guess i’ll just have to work a bit harder.
so the exploration begins…
south sea bubble? boy in the bubble? bubbles the chimp? michael jackson? anti-bubbles? (yes they do exist) speech bubbles? video games? the distortion you get when you look through a bubble? pop! elusive …ever tried to catch a bubble? childhood. froth. rabies. pollution. …could i use the liquid somehow? chop up the bottle? melt the bottle? cast the bottle? cast the plastic ring? use the bubble wrap (hmmm …quite like that). actually kind of surprised the bottle made it through the post. didn’t think liquid was a goer. could have been a bomb! hmmm.
and then i have a brainwave…
Posted in D-Mid Point Statement
i just had a brain wave. i had jumped to the conclusion that bleublweblaoblawblaewazblablarblablaeblaed was a made up word …or perhaps contained some hidden code (despite best attempts still hidden). but google! i never thought to google it. and now it all makes sense. there was just one match. apparently some woman jeweller from australia has sent another woman jeweller from new zealand this text to help trigger inspiration for some new work. coooool. i can work with that!
Posted in D-Mid Point Statement
bleublweblaoblawblaewazblablarblablaeblaed? bubbles? in bubblewrap? need i say more?
Posted in C-Beginning Statement
bubbles in bubble wrap
