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burning into wood

burnt wood soaking in bleach

clay mould of wood carving

plaster cast

final show

carved wood above
board with traces of wax and carved into below

plaster cast above
Trace left from pealing back clay below

after these experimentation's i decided the best material to work with would be my source material of wood. I began carve into it , as well as burn it trying to determine the best possible way of leaving trace elements. From doing these carvings i then decided to make casts/prints of the carved wood in plaster using the process as the piece itself.

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projection of trace

 i then began to look at alternitive methods of printing which would leave a trace so i decided  to  use the projecter , tracing out my image on  acetate  first then projecting it onto a blank wall .

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returning to my wood image and applying the wax to it

reverse side of the image cover in wax gives an almost transparent trace like effect.

Here i took an image of a close up of a trace left on my pallet , i thought it was quite an interesting image so i decided to recreate the effect with wax.