Materials

My initial idea from researching skin like materials or ones that allow stretch and movement made me think about using plaster or something else to fill a stretchy material to create shapes similar to Sarah Lucas and Marci Rubin. However i want to use a material that goes through a transformation that can be unpredictable and have hard to control outcomes. Such as plaster and i also still want to try using foam or expanding foam as i think it would work well in a material that allows some to go through it. Id have to think of ways to manipulate and change the shapes to create body language within the shapes.

These are trhe artists i found relating to this-

Vesa-Pekka Rannikko

Material is attached to a surface then filled with plaster left to set then the material is cut away.
http://www.vesapekkarannikko.net/works-installation.php?id=132

Lynda Benglis

 

'Arriving on the New York art scene in the late sixties with her poured latex and foam works, Benglis created a perfectly timed retort to the male dominated fusion of painting and sculpture that had taken place a few years earlier with the advent of Process Art and Minimalism. Known for her exploration of metaphorical, sexual and biomorphic shapes, she is deeply concerned with the physicality of form and how it affects the viewer, using a wide range of materials to render dynamic impressions of mass and surface: soft becomes hard, hard becomes soft and gestures are frozen.'

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/lynda_benglis.php