My work was selected by Hyphen Project to show through “Moving Gallery”. We will show my recent sculpture and talk to all passerby, to share my work, my concept, and most important, the message of endangered animals’ problem. There will be souvenirs for audiences.
and if you got any expired lipstick, feel free to bring them to me, I am getting ready for the next casting!!!
Filed under collaboration, Exhibition, MADM Unit 2 Assessment
After the tiger mould (7-8 pieces) , this time with a simpler form, clearer outline rhino, still a challenging task but seems under my control…feeling happy to keep working on sculpture.
screw it on the board so that it could be in the middle of the mould.
still, the sculpture is heavy….at the moment I prepare plaster and clay blocking any edges, I need to add some support to that.
1st piece is half of the mould, it consumed me a lot plaster, the whole bucket (around 25cm diameter, 40cm height)
as the ears are one of the difficult separating part for the mould, I try to make it better…try, probably it need to craft after casting
horn
clean and use soap the polish the surface
another pour for separating negative space between ears, and also that of belly and leg
the forth part:
meanwhile, imagining how to show my project well.
– what if the sculpture could be took away, audience got interactive, getting my “palm oil free” lipstick, so that they not only got the knowledge but also the daily habit….really begin to use something without palm oil
– 4 animals sculpture, with 4 color, 1 big lip balm (tiger) colorless, they could use container to get it.
– or? setup secondary boilier to melt in front of them?
– or? putting the amount of lipstick = amount of that animals population!? e.g. sumatran tiger less then 400, I put 399 pieces there.
Here’s the clay model for the rhino, I will make a 3-piece-plaster mould, I am quite satisfy with the result, when comparing to the sketch and design, it’s almost the same. At the same time, I added some gain/ stroke?! to the sculpture, that’s inspired by the cracking dry skin from rhino itself. I twist a bit and make it like the tiger style…..so that’s my style!
last time stopped here, almost the shape came out, just need to modify the surface and add the other leg
starting the surface fine tune, add the other leg the the same time.
here I adding the grain from the tube in the back
for eyes, nose…I keep using the same style to present them
here we could see the grain clearly, however this version is a bit too much and distracting the whole art piece…it dominated.
so I simplified it a bit~
final work, tomorrow will bring back to college for mould making
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For lipstick collection, there are some responses from HK friends and UK friends, but I found there would be a lot more needed, and therefore I google ” UK makeup artist / expert” I emailed and Facebook messaged many (10 pages search of google). Hope there are more donated by them.
And, Some already being posted to me….hope my project really bring the message to my friends.
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and thinking of elephant….the 4 sketches before….not yet perfect….so keep sketching:
I am now starting to make the rhino sculpture, this time I will make the shape clean and the lines easier for the mould. Because a better mould could cast more and better result
start to use wire and cling film to hold it tight, and putting clay on top.
As I am posting request for second hand, unwanted lipstick, for upcycling sculpture project. Here I try to illustrate my concept. The main purpose is to raise awareness of endangered animals. There is a deforestation problem due to the large amount use of palm oil, for manufacturing daily product such as lipstick, shampoo, chocolate, etc. Thus, the animals are lack of living habitat and prey for food.
由於我在多個社交群組徵求已用或不用的唇膏，作為升級再造雕塑之用。在此我描述一下概念。主要是借我的雕塑增加大家對瀕臨絕種動物的關注；由於大量使用棕櫚油生產日常用品如唇膏，洗頭水及朱古力等，以致森林過份被開伐. 因此動物漸漸失去生態居住及獵物。
Endangered Animals suffering from the problem/ : Sumatran Tiger/ Sumatran Elephant/ Sumatran Rhino/ Sumatran Orangutan
受影響的瀕臨絕種動物包括:蘇門答臘虎/大象／犀牛／猩猩
I try to cast my sculpture by mixing my own lip balm/ lipstick without palm oil. On the other hand, I am thinking to cast with second hand, or unwanted lipstick; the project itself involves upcycling and, at the same time through the collecting process, to let my friends know such problem. Thus, no matter the lipstick they donated are made with or without palm oil, they started to know it more, and I am working on a upcycling project as well.
我嘗試以其他物料製作不包含棕櫚油的唇膏雕塑。另一方面在構思以已用或不用的唇膏製作雕塑；製作概念在升級再造的同時，收集過程中讓我的朋友們開始認識這個課題。所以不論他們將捐出的唇膏有否棕櫚油，他們在這也認知更多，而我亦將廢物升級再造。
Link for more info/ 更多資訊:
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/palm_oil/
In order to make them like a whole series, I would like to follow a right scale, I mean 4 animals comparing each other. 
That’s an issue to concern, too small, the orangutan is difficult to make, too big, the elephant would be huge…still thinking how big should they be.
and some elephant outlook details for my ref
Cool down and the lip balm would shrink, so all the clip I use should release before if cracked.
before opening, I try to take photo to remind myself where is leaking a lot
opening
still a lot to fine tune and even craft again, but is a very good experience and result for me to do so many pieces mould.
comparing the clay model and the casted piece
the fur on chin gone a lot, the ears which are curved into the mould, are damaged. so next sculpture should consider the simplicity or dividing mould carefully.
Just a few days in Christie’s Asia Week as a gallery assistant. Feeling lucky to wider my sight. The job is mainly bring the art piece to the visitors, who are interested in bidding them. The visitors bring with torch and magnifying lens to see any damage on the items. The items ( I feel confused if that is art or historic item or product?) are all Chinese made of jade, ceramics, metals, as dining wares, daily products and accessories.
I feel a bit confused since…..ages ago (the time that item appears) the items maybe just a simple product, no body will buy them with a high price. Is that art really?! I keep think of that during my shift…..(when there is no visitors of course) well….I got some clue….I mean I try to answer myself with my observations.
First of all, the visitors are concerning damage or not, they use torch to look at them carefully. That means, items from ages ago, if there are any perfect items survived after so many years or so many owners, that will be a good one.
and, some visitors like to look at a set of items, I think keeping as a set also very important and dealing a high price, even the shape and form are not very special.
next, the special shape or item that need a good skill are also attractive to them, for example the thinness of ceramics, special shape of a plate, balance design of a bowl. Those may need a strong artist spirit to make.
anything else…?! er….
Actually I also collect toys and sell some of them when there is no more space…..some of the above point are similar~ but still, worth to see other side of a world! and, I am making sculpture too! that’s not another side….is part of the industry!
and just wanna say~ what is the strong artist spirit I saying above, is….the more effort you spend, the more details you concerned, the more time you spend, the more testing you did, the more stress in the process……The more you would like your final piece…and so the visitors and audiences, cheer up!!!
Because the palm oil problem affecting 4 endangered animals….so for the final project I want to make all 4 sculptures. instead of only one 1:1 tiger head. First of all, there are 4 animals suffering from the problem, I’d better show all of them in order to let the audience know more. And…instead of sculpting the head only, I want to show the dynamic, energy of the animals. Since a head is always linked to hunted for trophy. I do want to let people see the animals shape and gestures. Last but not least, as the sculpture is related to lipstick and lip balm, I try to use the 15mm diameter tube as part of the form….it also help to give a sense of motion to the sculpture. here are the different drawing I brainstormed.
to decide which one I will do, I’d better consider the making of mould too. Since there’s difficulty for too many parts, and also lost of sculpture details, leaking of mixture….etc.
I picked 1 from each (yellow circle), and will consider some element from others (blue circle)
TIger – the jumping action with tube enhancing motion; and see if I could twist a bit to perform the gesture, the simple but nice backbone shape
orangutan – the rushing motion (mainly consider the standing of sculpture…..) -_- actually I like the sitting post on tree…..hm…let me see
Rhino – the simple stepping motion with power; yea…add the direction element?!
elephant – the looking upward motion, with some changes to the trunk (curve maybe)
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