Not quite stone, but advice needed!

["Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Sorry Kathy I got quite excited by this one when it came through but I'm
immensely busy thanks Maureen for reminding us.

This "exercise" takes me back to the 70's when material studies were all the
go, there is a trick to it, it goes two ways 1... you should leave any
preconceptions about what you want to achieve way behind you and 2.....you
should experiment in a completely open way with concrete and when you get
quite excited about a result push it so far that you simply can't go any
further.

This may help, you shouldn't only think of hard concrete but all the various
stages that it goes through up to becoming very hard.

A jet of water may produce magical results when its just set, so might an
old saw used as a rasp, so might hydrochloric acid when its hard, first cast
10 cubes in little boxes, see what you can do with 2 really wet ones,
working all the way up really hard, always keep one hard one, but just see
where it all takes you.

Stone chisels etc will work on concrete but as concrete is very different to
stone you'll get a very different result, again, the trick is to notice
something about what you have done that excites you, once that happens then
you try to see where it can lead.

Another good way of approaching the project is to think of concrete as its
opposite, say juicy oil paint, there could be thousands of opposites to
concrete but the second you decide that something is its opposite then it
is, if oil paint is your choice then, you get a little box, mix up a bit of
concrete and colour and paint it into the bottom of the box, repeat with new
colours until the box is filled when it is all nice and dry take the sides
off the box and you've got concrete like you've never seen before. There are
millions of great answers to this question.

Good luck best regards Clive

Sculptor Clive Murray-White
Cowwarr Art Space
Cowwarr Gippsland Vic. Aus.
Ph: 03 51489321 Fax 0351489498
E-mail: clivemw@---------------
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