ive finally got round to peeling the resin of the silicon plastic and it came off beautifully, the resin was crystal clear and smooth as water.
i layed the larger pieces down underneath the hand, loosed the droplets and just shook them off around the main pools, it loks stunning the way the light captues each tiny drop.
i looked at putting a spot light on to the other fragmented resin piece but couldnt find anything sutiable when one of the technitions came up with the idea of putting a light inside of the plinth so i found a sutibale led light that was battery powered and drilled holes underneath the resin so the light shined up from underneath.
this solves the problem of not having enough light but too much with two strip lights.
for my bottle for the room that each of us personalise, i outlined the bottle in charcoal and filled the bottle with icing sugar so it stands stark next to the black.
i next had to come up with a name for the finished piece to tie the seperate sides of the room together and to give the audience a clue with what my work is about.
i have choosen the name ;
“Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas”
Transience of life, futility of vanity, the certainty of death.
this comes from the term vanitas
In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with still life painting in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places and periods. The Latin word means “vanity” and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. Ecclesiastes 1:2;12:8 from the Bible is often quoted in conjunction with this term.[1] The Vulgate (Latin translation of the Bible) renders the verse as Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas.[Eccl. 1:2;12:8] The verse is translated as Vanity of vanities; all is vanity by the King James Version of the Bible. Vanity is used here in its older (especially pre-14th century) sense of “futility”.[2] Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless is the rendering by The New International Version of the Bible.
Common vanitas symbols include skulls, which are a reminder of the certainty of death; rotten fruit, which symbolizes decay; bubbles, which symbolize the brevity of life and suddenness of death; smoke, watches, and hourglasses, which symbolize the brevity of life; and musical instruments, which symbolize brevity and the ephemeral nature of life. Fruit, flowers and butterflies can be interpreted in the same way, and a peeled lemon, as well as accompanying seafood was, like life, attractive to look at, but bitter to taste. There is debate among art historians as to how much, and how seriously, the vanitas theme is implied in still-life paintings without explicit imagery such as a skull. As in much moralistic genre painting, the enjoyment evoked by the sensuous depiction of the subject is in a certain conflict with the moralistic message.
