Morphogenesis, originally uploaded by Richard Sweeney.

While I am on the subject of card board, Richard Sweeney's work is worth an explore

More work and different stages of my current fascination with card board and wax. These are still very much sketches and I am starting to see some directions I want to go in. As in building openings into the forms and bigger contrasts between areas of big solids and trails of in to smaller busy blocks. Also learning as I go, that pouring the wax into the hollow card board form is best done not too hot, at the stage just before it starts setting. And the seams and corners needs to be well sealed with tape.

Husband thinks they are very Star Trek.. I am not worried yet, I have plans with the glass stage, but he could end up being right.

It has taken me over a month from getting back from Europe, full with inspiration and keen to make, till I have actually made it into the workshop. Friday I kick-started work by sitting up till 1.30 AM cutting and sticky-taping card board pieces together into form. I am sure there is an easier process for making this form, but I love the growing of it this way. Just like when I have build before in clay upside down on a convex base, I am a little removed from the end result and can let go of the controls, so forms develop. It is hollow and I have now poured hot wax in the inside and peeled the card board of. Ready for casting plaster and melting the wax out. This is my first time working with lost wax and glass - I know the theory behind but ..

This is going up on my wall in the workshop. Not only is it a fantastic formation of rock, it is also from my favourite spot in the world, Flock Hill, Southern Alps, NZ. Only an hour away from home and I can't go often enough.