The Hilarious Creation of the Wooden Armature.

Me and Ruth have been having a few logistical issues recently, we didn't really foreplan about how we're gonna get our pieces to the site. At first when we made the two cats they kept caving in because we hadn't made any support structure for underneath and so we used a LOT of plaster which made it heavy. We are lucky that plaster gets a lot lighter once it is totally dry, so much so that two people can lift it quite easily.


For the other pieces we made sure to build wooden armatures to go underneath the chickenwire and modroc. As much as we're both shockingly bad at DIY (infact we should have sent a film of it off to you've been framed) we managed to make them sturdy which meant we used a lot less modroc, making it lighter and cheaper.


We have also been considering how these pieces are going to be displayed at the exhibition. We know that they do not need a plinth. By sitting something on a plinth you situate it in reality for all to see, but that isn't the point of these pieces. They are items from a dream which are partially still in a dream like form and partially trying to reach reality. We want to work on lighting them from underneath and making them look as if they're creeping out of the darkness into reality, probably sat on the floor, therefore a plinth is completely unneccesary.