A morning in the studio

They started as a coincidence - with the Ludicrously Small Art Gallery (and its possible sculpture garden) in mind, and thinking about obelisks -- and a rearrangment of the studio, or rather a corner of it, in progress -- I found some fused plastic made in a workshop with Jo Budd years ago and set out to make a model in paper. Which turned out to have three sides, and harked back to Barbara Lee Smith's "pilings" seen years ago at an embroidery exhibition at the Curve (Barbican) -

The first was plain, the second hairier, and the third is read to cut out (sellotaped to the plastic) and put under the machine -

All three, the tallest about 7" -

 Strange how they have "body language" ... attitude ... interaction ...

Next day update --
A good reason for putting things away at the end of a working session is ... next day, you won't get tempted to use ever-smaller bits of leftovers!

In addition to making the two small "volcanoes" out of fused-plastic scraps, I took apart the plain tower and added more threads to it - thick threads in the bobbin.

My critical evaluation is that the patterning in the plastic isn't carried through, or even complemented, by the threads - the two elements seem to be rather competing with each other.

On a practical note, they were more stable when some screwed-up tissue paper was added into the bottoms of the towers.

This post is linked to Off the Wall Fridays.