Cass Easter Show preview (the final composition)

Cass Easter Show preview

The show is 6pm to 8pm today in the central house building of london metropolitain.




My peices are set up in the abandoned bank ajoining the university.

The gibbit in the two halved configiration

photo showing the importance of a west facing room to produce shadows.
the basic forms are now complete and need only to be cleaned and two peices would look better re-glued with more care.
i've decided to have the peice on the ground and in the two halved position.

london. sunday. midnight. images for catolog ?

shard of glass landscape
empty millenium bridge
south bank skake ramps
coven garden.
saint pauls with the lights out.

Today

All elements of the second half of the gibbet have been cut and the main shape has be more neatly glued.

prototype glass straight razor

the shadow looks funky in person

I started constuction of the second half of the gibbet today as well as an all glass straight razor.

feedback from chats today: -clean production. remove glue. cleaner cuts.
-decide the level of explanation for each peice.
-give entrance point for people who dont know the imagry.

messing around with lighting glass pieces.

candles spotlights natural light. the peices dont quite make the grade.

engraved barber pole (and messy desk)

the beginings of a sweeny todd peice.

gibbet taking shape.

What im going for. The basic shape of the gibbet although the range greatly in detail, from seperate heads like my design to arms and legs.
The head section.

Half of the finished article free standing. making me very nervous.

first stages of construction of my glass gibbet

The gibbet is a man shaped cage for the display of exiquted pirates in the docks to deter other sailers from becoming privateers.

the peices are marked on paper, hand cut and sanded.
when prepaired they are glued into place and left for 12hours till dry.

2D glass noose

Hung in the forth floor west facing window. The setting sun projects it up the walls of the studio.
The history of not only london but britain is full of the influence of nooses evan to the extent that hanging terms enter our laugauge...

on the wagon
off the wagon
one for the road
tyburn jig
pulling my leg

all terms of the hangmen. This is the marker of this old practice and the legends that it gave birth too.