Sellotape Experiments (03/03/2014)

It was suggested that i should try using sellotape to cast objects like I have been doing with fishing wire around the off cuts and the balloon. I thought I might try using it as it will be a lot quicker to produce the 'cell' shapes in this way and then I can use the sellotape maquette to practice a compostion for the fishing wire ones. The sellotape was instantly very interesting because of the way it takes in light and how marks show up on it very quickly, every fingerprint was recorded on the adhesive film.

I have done some experiments positioning the cells in the corner of my room, where spiderwebs sometimes grow unnoticed. This idea follows on from the work I was doing last year, using the parts of a room which are not regularly pulled into focus apart from by the intervention of spiders or dust. In this position I was able to observe it in different light throughout the day and the shadows that were cast around the base of the cells. I really liked the subtlety of the sellotape's transparency that would not really catch your eye unless you looked almost directly at the corner; in this way the work encourages people to look around at their environment and notice the smaller details. It would be interesting if I positioned it in a place where there are spiders webs to draw attention to them in a positive way, to encourage appreciation of the beauty of these natural forms.