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Playing with layering the separate pasta objects.

I want to cover an entire area, a LARGE area with this and have it back lit. There's been suggestions of making it come out of a wall, making a wall in itself or covering a surface or pillar. Gotta try these. Will be fun.

Also suggested that I should colour it. I really don't want to. I feel that painting the pasta will make it look too much like a macaroni picture or childs play and retract from the beauty of the natural material.

The sun behind the pasta is really quite beautiful. I thought I'd lose some of glow the more I stuck together the pasta, but it's still there. And now that I think about it, there's no reason why it would disappear. It doesn't necessarily get thicker, just wider. The object is as wide as the pasta is.

Sadly this pasta object broke in half today as I moved it into our life room at Uni. A little pissed off about it, but oh well, I can make another just as easily. But this one will never really be created the same again!

Dowel

Back to my previous materials this year to really resolve what I was doing last year. It was driving me insane knowing I hadn't felt like it was finished.
At the moment I have been instructed to make my forms neater. Not sure why as I like the sort of roughness of my works but apparently my teacher would prefer them neater. SO I'll give it a go, but there's a limit to how neat you can get something with hot glue.

Due to the surfaces that are glued together being so small, it is difficult to find an adhesive that will hold them together as well as take on the weight of the entire form. Hot glue is used because it dries so quickly. Most of my other options just don't, and I don't want to create a plaster form underneath, like the artist Tyler Aiello does, as I feel the form won't grow into it's own ..form. It'll just be a replica of the form I made it around. And that's just plain boring.

The suggestion I have tried out here is using uncut dowel to prop up the form and reinforce it. I merely wanted to see how small a curve I could make without the dowel slices becoming to sharp and then the curve being too jagged.

I'll do the same with the cardboard rings found at Reverse Art Truck in Ringwood.