I took inspiration from Rachel Whiteread and her casts made from the interior spaces of objects and environments. Similarly, I was interested in ‘visibilising’ otherwise invisible spaces in the form of objects—my response to the ‘Negative Space’ prompt for The Kick-About No.115.
These three sculptural forms were created by first lining three cardboard toilet rolls with thin sandwich bags (really stuffing them in there…) and then filling the tubes with quick-drying filler. Once dry, I cut the tubes away and peeled off the plastic bags. Because the plastic bags were creased and folded up on themselves inside the tube, they created all these fissures and surface textures.
Finally, before photographing them, I mashed some charcoal into water to produce a wash, which I applied with a fine, dry brush.
Red's Kingdom 
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