Our first assignment in unit was to create a plaster on wire frame copy of a paper bag. Starting with a paper bag we explored what sort of interesting gestures we could create. We the recreated the paper bag using wire mesh and twisted the wire mesh frame to a similar shape to the paper bag. Plaster impregnated tape was applied to the wire frame and then the whole surface was covered with plaster. The stage where I have reached at the time of writing is the basic shape of the bag, but it will take careful sanding to make the surface texture similar to that of the bag. The twisted top to the bag made covering the frame with tape quite a challenge and I discussed this with Jeff, who suggested that I apply the plaster when it was still very wet and before it had started transitioning to let it flow into all the nooks and crannies.
