I already thought about cutting the chess figures in half to have a look at the negative space, as well as looking at the shadows the chess figures would cast. I am extremly interested in how the shadows can be such beautiful pieces of art work. The artist who gave me the inspiration is KUMI YAMASHITA (japanese artist), who has done some wonderful art work using shadows:
As I am interested in shadows and architecture I thought I create a mixture of both. I looked at a building in Tokyo, Japan the Fuji Tv Headquarter because it has an interesting shape with the sphere in the centre. It makes it look very modern as well as quiet sophisticated.
I decided to use the CDs to create the sphere of the building, as its very interesting. I used the CDs because it can reflect light with its shiny side, so it could give me a nice effect. I cut the CDs in the middle and than stuck them onto a CD with a glue gun.
I also used the chess pieces and white tack to make a mould. I put the chess piece into the white tack, than later on removed it so I could papermache it to get the form of it. I used paper that had text on, as it was in the recycle bin, to create a pattern of black and white. I than removed the mould and was left with the chess piece that i imprinted and paper mached.
Images of chess pieces and their shadows:
I placed the pieces randomly first, than I noticed what great shadows there were and made it look lik the shadows are that of people instead of chess pieces.
Today I did a lot of thinking on what my next steps will be for the Fine Art work.
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