Sculpting the Human Head/Body

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The bust has been used for centuries to honor, memorialize, characterize, and distinguish identities of culture. As a social political tool, as many forms of art have been and will be, the face and bust have been used to provide an instrument of social control and propaganda. For ourselves and prosperity art through human form has been a link to the identities of personalities of the past. History, mythology, and other stories are hinted at, and revealed by these simple yet complex forms. We have a compulsive draw towards the replication of identity through various mediums, to empower a material to conjure a sense of preservation.

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Mold Making: Encapsulated Rubber Molds

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Mission: (Project Description)

In this project, the student will be introduced to “Encapsulated Mold-making”. Rubber will be used as an interior jacket to collect surface and surface detail. A plaster exterior mother mold will be used to establish a structure for the flexible mold. Rubber is an elastic material that can pick up very minute detail. Its flexible quality allows it to be pulled and stretched to cast challenging objects that can not be cast from a more rigid material. The mold material can be used numerous times with many different materials, respectively.

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