Mushrooms continued

in #art6 years ago (edited)

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We finished hanging our exhibition with Hydra at the Voipaala manor yesterday. The place looks amazing, though we didn't have much time to look around, so i will have to do a tour on friday before the vernissage.

Meanwhile i'd like to show the finishing of the mushrooms from before

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We left of here, with the mushrooms sticking out of the foam head. I made the head by making a latex mold out of a styrofoam model and cast some polyurethane foam in it with pieces of furniture stuffing, so more foam. I wasn't really digging the head; it may have looked good but it wasn't quite what i wanted.

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So this is only a small part of the room we are creating. We had discussed the idea of bringing in furniture before but we were not at that stage yet. One of the guys brought up a dream he had that involved bed and some goo, and i had thought of putting the shrooms on a pillow but needed some way to attach it to rest of the room. so it was good to go after that.

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we bought a pillow with some casing and i started putting the mushrooms in. I cut in a small hole in the pilow to hide a small piece of hard insulation foam where i could stick the wires from the shrooms through the casing.

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then to attach them properly i poured in some of polyurethane foam mixed with acetone.

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once it was hard the next day it was time to give it a gooey treatment from a clear non-silicon based solution mass which was turning out be a big hit at the workshop, mixed again with acetone and some pigments.

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And give good spread on the pillow as well.

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Yeah, it came out pretty disgusting.

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There it is on the bed. We bought some bed ends and cut a base and mattress to have a small portion to show from the corner.

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Here is our box from the outside on the manor floor.
I'll give you look of rest of the room later. Then there is rest of the exhibition which i haven't seen yet.

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The horrors of mushroom - creatures somewhere between animal and plant, and probably the largest organisms on the planet.

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