Craft is a starting place, a set of possibilities. It avoids absolutes, certainties, over-robust definitions, solace. It offers places, interstices, where objects and people meet. It is unstable, contingent. It is about experience. It is about desire. However it turns out, it is beautiful. Practice builds experience. This has happened to me a couple of occasions, for various reasons. (I may have over-mixed, taken too long, or the child may not be willing, or scared) Now, [...]
We all have dreams for our children. We would all like to see them achieved something we ourselves were not able to. There comes a time, that we pause to reflect on our little ones, and who they really are. It may be at 2am, while changing a nappy, or breastfeeding. Sometimes that moment is forced on us, through illness or death. It’s then that we are able to see a child who is content to [...]
I scheduled another moulding session with my previous model. This was going to be plain sailing. I had challenged her, and she was game. We were going to create a masterpiece!!!! We decided on a pose, that involved her hair and one hand over her left breast, and her arm partially covering the right breast.Her other arm would be slightly open on her tummy. This was to be from over the mouth to just below the [...]
I am posting this mini blog to show the incredible detail that is captured by our products. At a barbecue, recently, we decided to test some of the materials, and had an impromptu casting of "N's" face and hand. She really wanted to see the rings on her finger, and if they would come out, disolve, or have to be removed from her finger!!! As it turned out, she didn't have to remove them at all. [...]
I approached a friend to model for a cast........ I think I was more nervous than she was, so I checked with her continuously to see if she would "chicken out", but no ! I was not getting out of it. When my model arrived (early), we spoke about a few possible poses and decided on one. So, what we decided was to mould half her face, chest and tummy, with her arms more or less [...]
