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After Hepworth (2025)

A very simple thing from me this week for The Kick-About No. 145. I acquired some moulds for chocolate Easter eggs – a large one and a small one. I filled one half of the large mould with filler and then pushed the curvature of the smaller mould into the top of the larger filled…

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A very simple thing from me this week for The Kick-About No. 145. I acquired some moulds for chocolate Easter eggs – a large one and a small one. I filled one half of the large mould with filler and then pushed the curvature of the smaller mould into the top of the larger filled mould—and left the whole thing to dry. When the time came, I carefully removed the big half from its mould, and then pulled off/out the smaller mould, to reveal a very smooth egg-shaped crater. I then sanded the flat surface of the form to tidy any too-rough edges. That done, it was just a case of photographing the Hepworth-inspired form to capitalise on the various ways in which the ‘hollow’ assumed three-dimensions all of its own.

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    Chrysalis (2026) – Art Deco Forms Inspired by the Chrysler Building

    […] The thing I love about the Chrysler building—prompt for The Kick-About No.151—is how it grows into organicism as it reaches its peak; I get a strong sense of ‘chrysalis’ from the Chrysler building, as if that top-most part of the building is some Art Deco cocoon – part-architecture, part-pupa. With this in mind, I went casting around for something I could photograph that might give me those concentric curves and segmentation, finding improbable inspiration in the plastic chocolate egg moulds I used to create Hepworth-inspired objects for The Kick-About No. 145. […]

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