Casting Cycles - Five
Incubated Holding
The object triggers its own dissolution, is a self-sustaining source of its own life now in existence outside of the artist hand.
This iteration of the casting cycles is constructed in two parts. First the incubation, a buildup of latex that over three weeks constructs a cast of its own material weight. The second forms a resin chrysalis over the latex skin, this positive impression of the material is then stripped away leaving the negative as the residual cast.
The work forms a monument to the durational buildup of the object construction, these actions work in parallel to ongoing studio concerns into the quantifying of time through material interaction. Both these materials are treated as ephemeral firstly in their translucent appearance but their embodied relation to time as they destabilize themselves and are subject to fallibility and decay. The intention behind these materials is to bind the historical connotations of both these synthetic forms of matter together, both resin and latex being associated with the brink of Dematerialization now finding themselves as monuments to materiality.