Development of expanding foam
I feel like the foam experiment i did earlier was not as effective at communicate the ephemeral as i had hoped. After looking at Katie Wallbanks i think i am going to look at allowing gravity to influence the shapes created in the expanding foam. I found some packing paper, it has lots of holes in it, i thought it would be interesting to see if the expanding foam would seep through the holes and create interesting shapes. I want my work to have more place on the foam than in Katie Wallbanks work, i want it to feel like the foam grew so much that it exploded out and became frozen in that moment. I felt like with Wallbanks work the foam was very minimalistic and did not react with the netting at much as i would of liked. I want my materials to react with each other, become dependent, so that it does not look like i have put something in to something else but combined them.

I made a bag shape with the packing paper and then squirted the foam inside of it. I hung it up and let the foam do its thing. When i came back i was really pleased with the result. The foam had expanded out of the paper create beautifully dripping shapes. I felt like it captured the ephemeral, the temporary beautifully as it looked like it was about to fall on the floor and that it was still growing.

In my project proposal i said that i wanted to explore the ephemeral, i think with he expanding foam i have explored the temporary as the foam changes, it becomes something else. The expanding foam as a ,material its self captures a moment in time, it freezes gravity. I wanted my work to successfully communicate movement to people, when i have shown it to my friends and family that said it looked like something that grew and moved. I think by these comments it does communicate movement, it shows change. I also proposed in my proposal that my work would have a sense of the natural in it. I think as it looks like a living thing that has grown and expanded it does have a natural element of it. It becomes something alive.

Above it a Photo of my expanding foam experiment, i like the way there is a sense of escape. The shapes that are created by the foam being pushed through the paper are individual and have a sense of beauty to them. I also like the way the paper and foam have reacted to each other, they are depended on each other. It is only through a combination of the two materials that the shapes and outcome are possible.