Alginate
Before Cleanup
After Cleanup
The plaster project was a great start to the semester. Not only was I doing something that I had no experience, but we had to do multiple copies of it. Sounds like a blast. The practice project before this was the apple, which was a disaster, and set me up perfectly for the real challenge. So what I did was I cast different hands holding these toy guns. I used my own hand, and a few other friends.
The whole thought behind this piece was brought about when a kid from my town was shot and killed going home from a party only a week or two before. He was being robbed along with two of his friends and the scenario went too far. This was a kid that I had been in contact with here and there, and was really close with some of my close friends so it hit home. My whole idea was, when did we as kids stop playing with toy guns, and start playing with real ones? That's why I used the toy guns, and spray painted them jet black so they appeared to be real. As kids we would spend hours running up and down the block pretending we had real guns, and I just wanted to go back to that time when it was simpler. I also chose six guns and six hands because I displayed them in a circle, referring to the six bullets in a six shooter revolver.
This project really tested my patience and determination, but I'm happy with the outcome. The biggest pain was scraping all the alginate out of the inside of the hands. That itself took 10+ hours.
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