{"id":634,"date":"2025-04-03T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=634"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:40:34","slug":"slip-cast-results-of-children-for-not-bathing-but-drowning-sculpture-working-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Slip cast results of children for ‘Not bathing but drowning’ sculpture (working title)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I slipcast a couple of different factory moulds as tests. I’m leaning towards the first one aesthetically.<\/div>\n
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I will work them more after the holidays, adding a domed slab to the top and neatening the skin surface. For now I’ve spritzed and bagged them so they don’t dry out.<\/div>\n
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I think that I’d like the end piece in porcelain. <\/div>\n
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I like the idea of the whole piece being white, as a reference to the innocence of the children inheriting the poison chalice of our current anticipated future. <\/div>\n
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It also references white colonialism, which I consider to be one of the foundations or capitalism.<\/div>\n
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Thinking about it more, I like the idea of the head being submerged in a traditional white Victorian wash stand basin. Using such a found object is reminiscent industrial revolution into the frame, which is what really ramped up colonial capitalism and made the current climate crisis possible.<\/div>\n
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I will search for such a bowl. As before, I also have the option to commission one from a ceramicist.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I slipcast a couple of different factory moulds as tests. I’m leaning towards the first one aesthetically. I will work them more after the holidays, adding a domed slab to the top and neatening the skin surface. For now I’ve spritzed and bagged them so they don’t dry out. I think that I’d like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}