Process of final piece

Donald Trump just made it legal to shoot and kill hibernating bears in Alaska.
Hunters can also now use aircraft to track and shoot the bears, after the Obama-era wildlife protection laws were repealed by the current administration.

Gross moment woman has infected dermal filler squeezed from forehead
Under the previous law introduced by Barack Obama, it was illegal for hunters to use aggressive tactics.
These included trapping wolves while they were at their dens with cubs, tracking bears with aircraft, killing bears that were hibernating, luring bears with food to kill them at point-blank range, or trapping bears with wire snares.

But a new bill has now been passed through the House and the Senate, and was signed off by President Trump this week, which repeals that law.
Alaska is home to 16 national wildlife refuges, which together cover 76 million acres of land.
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Which inspired me to make a piece for the poor bears I want to make a bust of a bear (the bears head) I am not going to give him eyes or any identifying features. I want it to represent how now hunters are aloud to go shoot and kill hibernating animals and their babies. I think this is a disgusting act. It needs to be stopped!


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Made a basic bear shape with chicken wire, very hard to see the chicken wire in the picture but it is there. 

 Then started to cover it with burlap and plaster

Then decided to spray paint it 

Finally added a Gun shot wound to the head.

Process

I have a bunch of scraps of fish netting so I decided to stitch it together and make a dress with it. My idea with it is to show a person wrapped up and trapped in a fish net. Kind of like a contradiction because usually the person would be setting the nets and catching the fish, I want to add shells and hooks and corals and other things in the net showing the pain fish endure and also all the other things the fishnets pick up, they don't only pick up the fish they want they want, so much more is trapped in those nets.

 Bottom trawling is an industrial fishing method where a large net with heavy weights is dragged across the seafloor, scooping up everything in its path – from the targeted fish to the incidentally caught centuries-old corals. Bottom trawls are used in catching marine life that live on the seafloor, such as shrimp, cod, sole and flounder. Bottom trawling is unselective and severely damaging to seafloor ecosystems. The net indiscriminately catches every life and object it encounters. Thus, many creatures end up mistakenly caught and thrown overboard dead or dying, including endangered fish and even vulnerable deep-sea corals which can live for several hundred years. This collateral damage, called bycatch, can amount to 90% of a trawl’s total catch. In addition, the weight and width of a bottom trawl can destroy large areas of seafloor habitats that give marine species food and shelter. Such habitat destructions can leave the marine ecosystem permanently damaged.

Started by cutting the nets into pieces that I could work with easier and then stitched them together to make the basic shape that I wanted. Just to start with so I can improve it with more nets. 

I then started adding more layers of netting to make it thicker and less see thru. And I attached a huge hook to the back of the dress sort of being like the person was caught.

I then decided to change the directions of the netting to make it more stylized. I then started to add shells and hooks to the dress. I'm still in the process of getting more shells, hooks an bobers to cover the dress in. Also still need to stitch up a few more places that I have held together with clips.

I also have this old sponge I found a while back on a beach and wanted to use it, maybe as a purse to go with the dress.

(Sorry for the thing in the background kind of matches the netting and makes it hard to see the dress)

Process

 Mold of my hand with plaster in it.

 Trying to make that meat color on plaster.

 All my broken hands and some getting fixed

Critique 3

 Intentional Play

My three materials are soft sculpture, plaster, and chicken wire. For the past two weeks I've been experimenting with all of them, but mainly plaster and chicken wire since I've already done a lot of soft sculpture.

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For this piece, I molded my foot and then casted it in plaster and attached hooks so I could hang it from the chain. I want to continue working on this piece and add more limbs to it. Perhaps some arms and hands (I made some hands but both broke in the mold.)

 For this piece I started out by making a chicken wire form of a meat shape (half a cow). I then used burlap and other fabrics and different colored dyed plasters. I have a lot more to do to it but just recently had surgery and had to take a break from it.

Which is why I made this, because I can do it sitting down. Plus I've been wanting to make a lot of them and have them all hanging together as a series, called Innards and Remains. 

 

I also tried making some udders with fabric I want to make a lot of them all different sizes on the wall. I need to work more on it to make it more udder like. Free the nipples!

Videos of Process

So I have been experimenting with plaster and chicken wire since these are both materials I am not to familiar with using; here is video of me doing it. I also tried different dying techniques and if other fabrics worked with the plaster.

Processes

Process of starting a larger loom, since I want to continue what I have been doing so far. I want to have a lot of these to be hanging from the ceiling all different lengths, sizes, and colors, so I used a large painting I had..(isn't it lovely) 

Adding some different textures and materials, playing with them, deciding where I want to go with this piece.

Added some rope that I found, and removed that white fabric on the bottom. 

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I've also been working with plaster, first I made a mold of my foot with alignate, and casted it in plaster, which I then plan to hang from a chain. Which is why I added another layer of of plaster to the top of the foot  trying to make it look like bones, so I can drill into and put in a hook.  

(plaster in the mold)

I still need to sand the feet to get rid of the bubbles and bumps. 

I haven't decided if I should add blood to the feet or not. I kind of like the simple white. 

I also tried to mold of my hand but was a failure and all the fingers broke in the mold, I tried fixing them by reattaching them with plaster but since all the fingers were different sizes and didn't sit straight so they didn't attach perfectly in place. So I think it would be easier to make another mold, when I get more alginate. 

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But for my larger piece I'm using two of my materials, chicken wire and plaster. So I plan on doing the plaster layup process. Which I have done once before and failed horribly, so I really want to work hard with this, I'm not to great with plaster so it's been fun exploring the material. As well as the chicken wire I would love to do just a chicken wire piece but since it is see thru I would need many layers and don't know if I'm able to afford that much chicken wire. 

For this I did want to change the color of the plaster, so I started out putting in food coloring in the water, and then added the plaster. 

I thought I added enough color but once I started to mix the plaster it became very light, and pinkish. 

I don't mind it for the undercoat, but I would like to make the more finished piece darker in color. 

So I will be exploring other ways to dye the plaster with out it getting to light in color.

Adding the plaster to Burlap and then putting it onto my meat formed, chicken wire.

Was unable to get a good picture of just the chicken wire because it is see thru. 

But this is the start of my process. 

Critique 2