In the end I think that I had made about 18 plaster cast of the cow's vertabrae. I began to think of ideas of how to use the casts to make a sculpture. I didn't want to add anything to the casts because I thought that they looked very beautiful and interesting on their own and that the addition of another material or media would take away from their effect. When looking for inspiraton for this piece I turned to the artist Daphne Wright. I really like her work. She uses casting to create eerie, poignant sculptures of animals such as horses, swans and lambs. I love the feel of her work. The stillness of the animals really makes an impact on me. These are creatures that should be moving yet they are not, they are still and cold and solitary.
For my own sculpture, I wanted the casts to be all linked together, just as all the vertabrae of the spine are linked together. when constructing the sculpture, I first made a wire frame. I then started placing the vertabrae on to the frame. I used bostik and white thread in order to do this. I stuck the vertabrae on in a random way, to create a slight distortion in the piece. I really like how this work turned out. I feel that it represents the spine well. Although it was a time comsuming work to make and involved a lot of different processes, I think that it was well worth it!
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