Old hag!

Yes, yes, guess who's made it to 24.

Feel old already, guys. It wont be long before I'm in a wheelchair, I'm telling you!

Now, on an artists birthday, you already expect someone will definitely give you art stuff. And because I'm such a lucky lass, my fiancé brought me like 3kg of moulding clay. So my secret admiration for sculpture revived itself and I'm extending my summer project into my Goreology Series, the summer idea consisted of a set of three plaster of Paris casts of mine, my daughters and my fiancé's mouth, nose and chin. Originally, I was doing this for a piece to display at home as a family portrait, and was going to paint them and attach them onto small box canvases.

However, in light of my new theme, I'd like to make a family portrait with a new twist. Through my theory practice, I've begun to read on Deleuze's 'A Thousand Plateus' and am going to embed his ideology of Bodies Without Organs, into my Goreology practice and support my 2D work with a little love from 3D island.

Whoever said and artist can't be a jack of all trades? I've been itching to get more involved with the world of sculpture, so here's my chance!

I've brought some plaster gauze from the artshop at uni, to get some moulds of body parts, not that it's relating to the family portrait directly, but I'm hoping to actually create the carcass of a body, to develop into something. My partner of the arts (Alannah Spence) is always willing to donate her beautiful figure for my work, so I managed to get some really good moulds of her today, and even if I don't use them all, I'm starting to get a good flow of ideas on how to produce an artistic body without organs.

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