February 2015 – To Kiss or not to Kiss

27/02/2015 Collaboration

Inspiring visit from Adriana and Carlos

While I carry on making the models of the 6 multicultural kissing couples, I am thinking about the different directions this project could take, the needs and requirements for each of the possibilities. I was getting a bit scrambled up

Hands-on, new rough sketches.

Making the first models was good to gain experience on how to work with modeling clay (the one that hardens up). This clay is not so user friendly, it shrinks while it dries and this leaves a rough texture. This

02/02/2015 Clay Models / Turkey

First Steps, materializing ideas.

This is how it all started, the first sketch model inspired in a female Turkish folkloric dress. I transferred this idea into modeling clay and as a next step a mold was made by Montagne Aardenwerkfabriek to slip cast it