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We like negative space, so we cast some. We laid down some odd shaped plywood pieces and filled in the space around them with wet sheets of lightly pressed cotton paper. The pebbles were pressed in for texture.
We like the thick flange-like, shadow-catching edges that run around the shapes. The resultant form invites entanglement.
We call them “holed’ers” because the pieces were initially, at least, holed by positive shapes.
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Carving grooves in pink insulation foam board to cast coil designs seems clever, but it is not practical. You would have to gouge a busy road map of grooves to get much flexibility of design. Or go through a lot of pink foam.
Our next idea is to use strips of aluminum flashing held in position with kebab skewers. We liked our sample, but found it awkward to position the flashing walls and plunge them into place at the same time. Much easier to position the fences just so and then skewer them into place.
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Afternoon, November 29, 2018, waiting on a coil to dry.
We rolled some 96” x 4” strips of 5 hour double-couched abaca into coils. Then we moved them around to find a design we liked. We traced the design onto the pink insulation foam in pencil. We used a cutter and carving tools to gouge out a groove to serve as a mold for the coils. With the help of some T-pins at the end, the coils shrank taut and stiffly structural. Even with a fan blowing across the surface, it took 12 days to dry - about 2x as long as expected.
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