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7 Rules of Achievement: From Vision to Action The Complete Guide to Programming Your Internal Success Mechanism!!!  2012 

willow, latex, stockinette,  pillows, card, paint, found objects

Faye Scott-Farrington & Sophie Daniel

Foamy Bathsoak is not your average maggot. He's a maggot with ambition, a maggot with a plan. Where his peers may be content and happy to live out their days in squalor and poverty, Foamy dreams of more. A career, a house, car, dishwasher, broadband connection…. some legs, perhaps?

Why should he merely live up to the expectations society has for a pupa? Why, when he has so much more to offer, should he be confined to a life in his subterranean bedsit like everyone else?He's read complicated books, he's working on gaining more qualifications, aiming higher. 2012 will be his year the year of the maggot. Foamy Bathsoak is determined to be different, he understands the job market is saturated but with his level 2 spoken French and O level in Mathematics this bug thinks he can go far. If he can survive in a box of soil, he has what it takes to survive the cut and thrust of the world today, Foamy wants to rise above the surface, break down the walls of his box and take on new challenges. Foamy Bathsoak is going to be living proof that change is possible for anyone.

We would like to show you around Mr. Bathsoak's home, to witness the changes that are taking place, see how he is making things happen and building himself a brighter future. One day you will be able to say “I knew Foamy Bathsoak before his success, before he became a living-legend”. His bedsit is small, but he won't be there much longer once his career kicks off, so there isn't much time... try and make yourself at home.

Come and witness his exceptional metamorphosis!

The work will be on show until June 5th 2012 at Saint Andrew's Court Shopping Arcade in Bolton

Foamy's Head

I tasked myself with making Foamy's head whilst Sophie stuffed the body

I used the same technique as with the body frame and the green man I've made for Midsummer Watch Parade

Building Foamy's Body

Sophie's plan...

I constructed a withy, paper and latex frame onto which stuffing could be attached, this was then covered in stockinette. 

I think the technique was flawed, Sophie struggled with stuffing the body and getting the latex to stick to the stockinette, which was thicker than the stuff I had used on the rat head I'd made for Manchester Day Parade. 

The overall shape of the body doesn't work in my opinion, it needs more podge around the bottom...

Cast Iron Dinosaur

I made this during my time at Dartmoor Arts Week 2010

I realise I have not documented the actual product of my pour on this blog, merely just posted lovely photographs of my in masses of safety gear lugging crucibles about. 

so here it is

When I have a decent studio with a work bench and desk, I will grind off the runner and riser on the base and clean off the remaining sand properly. 

A bird for Georgia Rusch's Little Bird installation

Now for something completely different...
Caught wind of the project on Twitter
http://www.dukes-lancaster.org/event/little-bird

"The exhibition will be an installation comprising a flock of little birds hanging from the gallery ceiling above the visitors' heads. Each will be unique, created in 3D by a different artist or craftsperson, in whichever medium and style that they choose. Each will be a beautiful little work of art in its own right that visitors can buy and take home to treasure at the end of the exhibition. All birds will be sold to raise funds for Women for Women International."

I have not made anything three dimensional in a long time and so thought I would join in, I used the provided base pattern and embellished it a little.