Coral

As I have said before I feel that to give my project momentum I must keep visually stimulating myself to assure me of my concept and continually  provoke ideas to inform my making. To help with this I visited the exhibition on coral at the Manchester museums where I was hugely inspired by the hard but seemingly soft and spongy, sculptural forms of different kinds of coral. The way the coral grows makes it look as though it is made from a number of different pieces built together to make a whole.  

The components I was making before produced through a process of cutting and folding circles relates well to this as the surface can be built from many separate pieces. I have begun to experiment with taking these components off, of the ground and making a whole surface from them. The movement created by doing this is much more fluid much like a coral reef.