Since seeing Karla Blacks work I have been hugely inspired. The way the materials are being used just for the way it looks, feels and smells. Karla Black says she does not use these materials for any other reason other than for its substance, So it does not link to feminism or cleanness, purely just because it is always different in each city and it will all be made different.
What I am interested in with Karla Blacks work is how she uses something so mundane and something we use every day and make it so special. Nigel was telling me to make my soap sculptures into a fantasy landscape and I feel this was maybe too literal and when I look at Karla Blacks work, it is magical. The sculptures are almost like magical landscape, as the colour just floats. The pieces look little floating magical land found in the clouds. The colour is so important in Karla Blacks work as if the colours were too bright harsh pink it would look completely different and tell a completely different story. With my soap sculptures, that is taking something so every day, making it special, and showing people something new, not many people have seen what happens when you put soap in a microwave. Karla Black uses materials such as bath bombs, toothpaste and face creams, which are all everyday objects, but she turns them into something you would never think these boring objects could be. I love the idea of turning something so dull and every day and making it something so special and something you will never forget as I did with Karla Blacks work.
One thing i have been thinking a lot about is if I want my final piece to be a video.
I want the magical aspect, and I feel it would come across better in a video.
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