Or might not. It all depends.
I have decided to call my torso Barbara. Thanks to Tinkingbell for the idea and apologies to the only Barbara that I actually know. But it is far too late to change my mind now. The torso is very definitely a Barbara.
So I have spent the past two days playing with Barbara’s bum and the ceramic ideas are streaming through my mind at an alarming rate of knots.
I have made two plaster casts of Barbara’s bum in search of the right shape for the bum plates that I want to make. And in the process, an idea for an installation has started to niggle away in the back of my mind.
This is a photo of the first plaster cast that I made.
The photo doesn’t actually do the sensual curves of the mould justice but that is beside the point really. In this mould all I can see is a series of beetles wings.
I would like to make a series of plates/wall hanging thingies that look like the wings of a beetle. I can see a large wall with about 30 or so of these forms on it in a wavy inverted ‘S’ shape glistening in the light all greeny blue.
This is what happens when I start to work. I think to myself, rightio Kimmie get to work making a bum mould and halfway through the process Barbara’s bum has morphed into a beetle.
*sigh* sometimes it is hard being me.
I think that it was my friend Jientje who posted photos of a Belgian artist who did some interesting things with beetles.
So anyway this is what is going on in my head today. What’s happening in yours my lovelies???
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I like it!
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Glad I could help out! Howdy, Barbara!
lvoe the beetle idea – immediatlyt go to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and look at their amazing beetle collection – go go go !
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Not much at all going on in my head today. I fooled around with pencil and ruler altering a house plan I’m currently in love with, then I made a batch of brownies from a recipe I found on the web. They’re not nearly as nice as my own recipe, so now I’m cranky. I love the plaster mould of Barbara’s bum. It would make a beautiful serving dish or one of those dishes you have near an entrance to chuck your keys in. I can’t see beetle wings in it, but that’s because I’m not artistic in the same way you are.
I think it would do better as an entryway display. As in, go away and “butt out” if you’re not invited over. I think it should make an excellent talisman against Jehovah’s Witnesses. Do you get those out there?
My mom’s name is Barbara. She’d approve – she’d love to have that butt.
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Oh that’s a beautiful bum! what do you use ‘bum plates’ for .. snacks .. prawns in one and toss the shells in the other … or what? Hope we see the finished article – even if it has something to do with a beetles/’S’s floating all over the wall! Lucky you with your arty mind!
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I know a few gastroenterologists (proctologists for US readers) who’d love Barbara’s bum on their walls LOL.
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I see…
massive beetles, the whole thing with the legs and head and body and wings, painted in the christmas stag beetle colours, reds, greens, metallic looking browns, all hung over one wall….
or displayed in an art gallery 🙂
I would go gaga over the colours.
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LOL, I like Jayne’s idea. I think she might be onto a winner there!
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I had to go away first time as nothing was going on in my head…..now? Tralala lalalala….and for some reason: There was an old lady who swallowed a fly…I don’t know why she swallowed a fly….etc etc.
Maybe it’s to do with the beetle. Looking forward to the bum-inspired beetle art! Hope you blog it 😀
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you could call it ‘bum beetles’
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looking good
hahaha “bum beetles”
I wonder what you’ll do with Barbara’s cleavage?
Bwahahahahahahaha! I’m quite flattered actually although I dread to think what xbox is going to make of all this.
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ROFL!!! I can totally relate to the way your mind works. That’s how a creative mind hops from one idea to the next, I guess. And yes, I was the one who posted about that artist. He has – among other stuff ha has made – covered a ceiling at the Royal Palace with the shiny green shields of Rhinoceros beetles.
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