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.
I took a few photographs of the moulds nested inside each other, then took those studies into video editing software, where a particular technique allowed me to ‘bend’ the images into the semblance of three-dimensional forms. It all got very exciting for a while there and really I just want to realise these tactile-looking things as actual ‘things’—wishing I was a jeweller or wood-whittler or metalsmith or… Some of them look like cocoons or eggs, others look like Deco compacts or brooches – and none of them a patch on the building itself!
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