Presevation of flowers due to lack of oxygen

Steeped in beetroot juice

Resin and Wax sculptures.

Wax and Resin cubes which came from the idea of the ice sculpture.

In the resin and wax there are materials such as string, laytex, flowers, stems, petals, fabric, etc.

Exploring the movment of texture as flowers decay

 A courflour, water and food dye mix created the moist gloopy texture of the flowers,

When left in a warm dry place it dried and cracked to form the texture of dried decaying flowers.

exploring smooth texture

I needed to try and create the smooth glossy texture of the flowers after they had been frozen I used laytex and food colouring.

Melted roses

As the roses melted they lost there colour, and in contrast to the original crisp roses that were fragile after decay, these were moist full, smooth and glossy.

Frozen Roses

I thought it would be interesting to prohibit the decaying process, i did this very simply buy freezing them, the ice inhanced the colour. Furthermore I recorded the ice melting gradually releasing the petals, so they came through the ice.

Texture

I began to make swatches exploring the texture of the flower trying to minipulate fabric such as burning tearing and stitching,I also started dying fabric using beetroot and started making littel mockets of sculptural pieces, these pieces are made simply with wax and black polycotton fabric, they are tactile and invite the viewer to touch.