09.11.21

I finished the dyeing process on my fabric pieces and some of the colours I achieved I'm very happy with but I just need to work out what I'll do with the pieces now with a more detailed plan. I've also finally got to making my latex vessel inspired by waterskins that I planned early October and I'm extremely happy with it. It has this grotesque yet delicate feel about it which I really enjoy and almost thrive for within my work. The preformative element this piece was originally intended for will need some work as I tried it and did not have the effect at all I wanted. The preformative element being filling the piece with oil (eventually the aroma oil) then piercing the latex allowing the oil to slowly drip on a stretched, long canvas. My experiment with this is making me wonder whether or not I should remove the canvas completely and allow the oil to create a puddle on the floor allowing the latex to not be overshadowed by the large canvas. 

Modern Recreation of a Waterskin

Waterskin

A waterskin is a receptacle used to hold water. Normally made of a sheep or goat skin, it retains water naturally and therefore was very useful in desert crossings until the invention of the canteen, though waterskins are still used in some parts of the world. Though it may have been used over 5000 years ago by tribal peoples, the first pictures of it are from ancient Assyrians, who used the bladders as floats in 3000 B.C. It also was used by large ancient empires such as Rome before the advent of the canteen.