Casting Time

I have further explored the use of three dimensional making within this unit. With each film reel I have had processed I started to make castings from the empty canisters. Using resins and plaster, representative of a full stop in time. I entrapped some sea water from the beaches I had photographed; the idea was to seal the moveable form inside a static object. I have always found photographing my more minimal pieces of work rather difficult in the past and so I have often used the daylight studio, I found that it had a much more and white casting of shadows, which is something I like to depict within my photography. 

From looking at the work of Edmund de Waal, I was interested in his use of minimal objects and he arrangement of the pieces, each a series of collective pieces, this is something I have portrayed within my own displays of the canister pieces.

Thinking about the objects as relics of time, and ways of archiving them. I think they would be suited to be exhibited within gallery and museum environments as they have such an unusual quality in terms of representing time in both a figurative and abstract way.