What updates are there with my Chinese and English illness sculpture?
Well… the good news is that I have managed to come by some nice used bricks from the construction site right next to the suffolk college. They were renovating this big building into a new student accommodation or hotel place and they were chucking out the used bricks that once supported the old walling. I asked them if I could have about 30-40 of them bricks and they let me have them for free which was nice of them.
Once they gave me the go ahead to take the bricks from their construction yard, I had to get hold of a trailer thing and put a piece of thick hard wooden board across it. After that I then managed to successfully load the bricks onto it and took some strength pulling it back to the university but managed to successfully do it in the end.
What did I do next with the used bricks?
The next thing was to unload them carefully and stored them inside under the stairs of the MA building before beginning the next process. The next process is to use a chisel with hammer to help knock or take off the cement remains that is left stuck on the bricks. By taking the remains of the cement off will be like making the bricks almost like brand new but still have that nice old age added to them seeing the cracks and worn edges to them which is what I want.
After 2 hours of taking away the cement remains off the bricks I then decided to place them once again under the MA arts building ready for use with my sculpture. Once I get round to using the bricks for my sculpture I can keep you updated of my progress in making it happen.
Please enjoy these short 2 minutes of commentary of how I taken the remains off the bricks and my intention for doing it.
