This is an instillation that was made at
RMIT in the first year studio. The idea evolved from a found object that i stumbled across around the city campus. The object itself is a wooden support which would have been found between the legs of the chair for support. Through a series of experiments and material exploration, i decided to work with wax. It is an
extremely malleable substance and with enough patients can achieve some stunning results.
I began by taking a mould of my object to replicate it as many times as needed. As simple as the object may seem, i was fascinated with its symmetry and the curvature of the object. In keeping with this theme i decided to morph the original object into something still symmetrical though slightly more simplified. Thus the object to a cylinder, then to a rectangle, and then the square to a flat . The colour graduation was added for aesthetic value. The plain white colour of paraffin wax is (for myself) domestic and mundane. If it were in a pure white gallery space then it would become something else.
I also new that i was making a work to go around a pillar and hence the idea of the object morphing as it wound itself around the space was appealing. The floating wax objects gave the work another dimension by lifting it away from the wall or the floor. I enjoy the idea that the viewer has to rotate them self around the work to view the whole instillation as a lot of sculpture is still looked at from only one or two angles then passed by.
