I came across this artist after having done the casting and Eggs workshops and found her work relevant to my research. I like how she has made a fragile life form into delicate object and preserved it in the process. The inside of the cast would be a perfect shell of the dead pigeon which you wouldn't have been able to see until crushed, by revealing it she also destroyed it at the same time.
I found that I was more interested in the plaster mould than the finished object after the casting workshop. The smoothness and the perfect imprint of the mould were far more interesting than the cast object, which was lacking in the finer details and didn't help that the wax used gave an unsatisfactory finish that was far removed from the initial object.
Mona Naess's created the pigeon by dipping the dead bird into porcelain, when fired the bird inside disintegrated leaving nothing but a few fragments of bone. The cast manages to capture its death in a beautiful, though slightly disturbing, way. It reminds us of the fragility between life and death, perfection and brokenness, how nothing lasts though we may look for ways to preserve it.
I want to look into the ways that the mould could be made into the finished object, possibly making it out of concrete, plaster or resin and then lining it with a textile to form a cushion for the object. Normally the cast object would be kept and the mould disposed of, however I like the perfection in the detail on the mould and want to preserve this. I will also look into ways to cast very delicate objects and using a mixture of different materials to achieve this.
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