Thursday, February 25, 2016

Gutskin

Well some success today as another experiment in stretching and drying porcine casing to use as surface medium finally worked!

After a few dozen tries to stretch and dry these over various surfaces, and drying techniques I found that stretching unbleached casing onto the dull side of aluminum foil and drying for 12 hours indoors at room temperature will hold the shape you stretch it in as well as separate from the foil easily enough.

The casing seems to be able to layer, or vary the width, as this piece has at its thickest is 5 layers.

I really like the aesthetic; the different thickness (and therefor varying opaqueness), the vascular appearance, and texture.

From prior experiments it holds acrylic paint sufficiently, so there may be interesting uses for this as a viable surface, as well as addition to other surfaces.


Peeling away the foil



Against white paper


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