process.gleuch

Unfortunately, the luster of the LED idea has faded due to a process flaw. By making the wax eggs hollow, the led lights are not able to diffuse the light to make them glow, instead, only partially lighting up the eggs. Red and orange LEDs are very directional, and is not producing a glow. Green and Blue are better, but not by much. Instead, I plan to scrap the LEDs from the eggs and let them be a polished, translucent white color.

I’ve thought of possible attempts at unique placement of the piece, but the best place seems to be in a typical pedestal gallery placement.

Due to problems with creating the square mold, I’ve decided to turn to clear globe ornaments that I can fill with wax. Then, I can make the wax hollow enough to cool quickly, but also allow room to place the LEDs in at a later date. The battery life on one LED would last less than 3 days, making the rest of the piece time sensitive. Hollowing out the middle allows me to come back at a later date.

I’ve also decided to move away from the concept of taking ideas into the idea of how the internet is fostering new startup companies. Each wax "egg" is to represent a startup web-only company. A nest will be made from wires and computer cables and placed keyboard of a laptop computer. Even if the idea of internet is a bit of a stretch to gather from the piece, one will surely walk away from it understanding the computer and egg senses of the piece.

Lessons

• Acrylic takes forever to dry when thicker than a few sheets of paper.
• Plaster of Paris does not help the drying process.
• Oil paint holds form well in a flimy structure.
• Butter sticks are packaged in 9oz sticks, but measurement marking on the wrapper usually indicate increments equal to 8oz.
• We on average consume 11 pounds of butter a year, less than in the early 1900s due to the increased use of margerine.

Thoughts

• Can this piece be incorporated into a whole ‘tea & crumpet’ session, with something as cracker wafers, another supply as cheese, another as jam spread, another as crumpets, etc.?
• This was a nice transition from the complex earlier ideas into a simplied result that includes a basis of personal prior art ("This is Not Today’s Butter" and "Will Paint for Food").
• Is it actually safe to call this a montage?

• Is four sticks of butter even necessary? Why not one?
• Acrylic, dried in layers inside a butter wrapper. Some type of thickening medium to allow solidification to happen quicker. Maybe Plaster of Paris?
• Color — Titanum White or Cadmium Yellow. Must represent butter to an extent (shape, color varience). Blue or Red could implicate other messages unnecessary to this piece.
• Butter dish. Interesting parallel of fine art and aristocratic food/beverage culture (Fine art & fine snacks for the wealthy.). Porcelain, simple.
• Palette Knife synonomous with butter knife.

In class brainstorming and detailed renderings.
 

• Overall, not bad idea. Very effective. However, does not seem as if it is solving the project’s request — to cover anew. Seems more like looking at the label as a blank canvas. Think beyond just the label.