multimedial manipulations

"Chemical formation 309" This formation conjurs imagery of alien lifeforms and my imagination leads me to believe it the spawn or egg of some alien creature or perhaps how a spot may look if it had landed itself upon an unlucky alien form, either way this formation holds some strange martian feeling to it.

"Chemical formation 305" The imagery here I have been told reminds some of rock formations upon our own planet but again seems to me like an alien formation, holding upon itself a beautiful aesthetic. The use of a varied ratio of pigment to water creating the thicker colours within the center yet the thinned yellow ink around its outskirts creating a beautiful contrast within itself. I am not sure why but this is one of my favourite formations.

"Chemical formation 295" the neutral earthen greens and large slimy black barriers appear to be trying to hide and protect the rich purples that almost feel like they are flowing beneathe the piece as if to only rear its head in areas it feels safe

"Chemical formation 301" I took a close up of this formation as I think it shows the segregation of colour within the piece the barriers between the neutral earthen green with its long shapes and the clean white sticking to simple sphere's of contrast, held together within the shiny black liquid. Its aesthetic qualities appear to jump out at you as the bright purple seems to try and mimic both colours being held in simple spheres alongside longer resevoirs of brighter futures.

experiments with colour

"Chemical Formation 283" this image makes me think of an alien style frog, the way it appears to be slimily moving forward, you expect it to leave a snail like trail behind as it approaches you, its thin film like skin holding its inner blue organs from slipping away while using some form of spiked deterent against predators running along its back.

"Chemical formation 268" is a simple formation that seems to have snake like formations within it, one particularly stands out cutting straight through the middle of the piece, the snaking lines weaving through the bold spherical droplets of colour held together by the thin slimy black cement. I particularly like the small heart-like formation in the bottom right of the image, this shape was actually intentional due to this piece being created on valentines day.

"Chemical formation 248" is a formation in which I tried to use a minimal amount of ferrofluid to create the small cones you see lying around the edge of the high rising walls that encompas the bold colours within. The single piece of segregated colour in the bottom right pulled away and kept from its fellows by the hard over-powering white colours cutting through the center holding it back from its family colours keeping it in a prison, giving it the choice of either trying to escape the world it knows, inside the black walls or never seeing its fellow colours again, then the bold orange in the dead center of the sculpture looking like a button or a heart, trying to squeeze past the white walls to its parent colour perhaps, although this is just my personal interpretation of the piece.

"Chemical formation 269" this image is another look at 268 from a new perspective to highlight the different sizes between the pools of colour and to create the feeling of a moving animal, creeping forward on its natural route alongside showing its defensive spikes.

"Chemical formation 250" is a formation that combats the images produced by "Chemical formation 248" as the power and segragation caused by the white pools have been over run by the suddenly large amounts of colour swamping the piece, the pools have become such a large amount that there are no spires left, only walls created by the ferrofluid, this experiment was primarily to see how much liquid the ferrofluids could hold under the power of the magnet.

"Chemical formation 267" similar to 268 & 269 from another perspective this image however does not highlight the snake like effects or the feeling of movement but instead shows the neutral coloured resevoirs and valentines heart with the feeling of gently becoming more agressively spiked towards the rear of the sculptural form.

"Chemical formation 249" is the same formation as in 248 however I have played with the lighting, angle and camera distance to warp our view of the structure and give it a more extra terrestrial feel

"Chemical formation 253" is a piece which incorporates a painted petri-dish rather than the usual transparent dish I have been using in most the other works, I used a earthen pallet for this as it is the basis board for the life-like formations I have been creating and highlights the ferrofluids dark tone while not distracting from the overall central formation. The black staining stemming from the formation however was due to the density of the oil used in ferrofluid that tends to stain all it touches, as there is a layer of paint the fluid disperesed itself where it could. I am not sure what to make of this image but the large selection of colours clashing with the shining black fluid and sweeping escape blasting from one side as if trying to wipe its own slate clean or as if there was an eruption from the sculpture causing the smoke like mark to appear.