Today I had various meetings and crits about all sorts of stuff. To be honest most of it was quite interesting, it was just a bit unfortunate that it all had to be on the same day (I can only take so much of theory at once and rather had it spread out a bit since next friday there is none of it at all). We also had another projectspace which today was organised by Gregor Morrison and Iain Sutherland. Gregor did his undergrad in Screenprinting and Iain is a photographer. They worked togheter by using Iain's photographs screenprinted on by plaster created slabs (which where quite big and heavy). They also had a small second room where they projected a video of a landscape/sea view (the screenprinted images where also pieces of this view but by the way they where printed they wern't all as clear to recognise). I enjoyed the show quite well but got a bit annyoed when people started to discuss to much about the technical imperfections. I know everything can be done better but it's a project space not a gallery.
The more fun part of today was that I saw the chance of running into the woodshop before class started this morning, and asked Doug about the matterials present (I wanted to make small wooden panels to use for moldmaking). I just didn't expect him to actually make them for me so that was a nice surprise after I came out of class. As you can see on the picture the wooden pieces have an extra piece on the end. This is so you can hold them togheter by using glue clamps. When used properly I can pour plaster or other mold matterial in this box which saves me from having to build up a clay wall around my object all the time (see my mouldmaking tutorials on earlier messages from my blog). Hopefully I get to try them out next week.
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