Objects and absence

Using porcelain to create negative spaces from objects. not for the purpose of casting but to create space in the place of the object, as an absent form. Will dry, fire and possibly paint, fracture, patchwork. Seems a very obvious response to the object with clay but I feel a necessity to go through the motions at the moment as it’s early days. The shoe seems to have worked well as it is not a firm material and the shape altered when pressing into the clay. The photographs are interesting as they play with perspective in terms of questioning the relief, it seems raised and yet hollow at the same time.

Perhaps keeping objects is to do with absence. In the absence of the person, memory or experience we hold the object close. The definition of absence (noun) is the fact of not existing. Objects become the substitute in place of the lack of presence.  Objects are filling space in our reality where the memory is un-holdable/graspable

A death mask is a mold of the face/ Rachel Whiteread made similar pieces casting mattresses etc outer casting of objects, whereas House was a cast of emptiness, a cast of the nothingness inside, a cast of absence.