While looking into Nadine Baldow and her other projects, I was inspired to create my own sculptures using plastic as my medium. I saw that she uses several techniques to mould plastic – heat being one of them. So I bought myself a heat gun to disfigure plastic bottles that I had at home. Experimenting with different density of plastics to see how they all mould differently and how quick it moulds when heat is introduced. I thought they turned out really well not disfigured enough like Baldow’s but its really interesting watching it ‘shrink’ and getting different textures from different types of plastic.
The first picture above is a lighter density of plastic. As expected this one didn’t need a lot of heat to take ‘shape’. I liked the bubbly texture that it made. I had to be careful as it burns fairly easily.
On the right, I layered on different types of plastics and melted them together. Creating more depth and various textures from different type of plastic. Some easily crumpled and some barely sculpted maybe due to the plastic being so thick. All are plastic found in the house mostly packaging. I also started to introduce coloured plastic as most of the plastic I was working with are clear. I noticed how some transparent plastic became opaque when heat is concentrated on it.