Silicone moulds captivated me in the way that with proper technique, a mould can be made that has the capability to produce hundreds of casts. I experimented with skin safe silicone and was stunned with the level of detail that it was able to hold. After starting with just my face I wanted to increase the size to my whole head. This project acted as a difficult but satisfying challenge. Once covering my whole head with silicone. The mould was only strong enough for a single cast, so with that I made a two-part mould.

Having multiple casts of my own head felt surreal, the detail even picking up scars I acquired as a child. In total I made six casts and distributed most of them among friends and family, keeping the master cast for myself. I never have done self-portraits or life drawings of myself before so having replicas of my own head being one of the first artworks of the self is really quite special to me.

My grandfather was an insect collector and after his passing he left me a part of his collection. This was a large factor in my inspiration in college. I was still quite young when my grandfather pasted, but we still shared a deep interest in insects. I am fascinated with their otherworldly alien yet grotesque beauty. I made a two-part silicone mould of an insect figure made from clay. Using this, I casted it in many different materials, one was clear cast resin. Which I photographed in black and white film and displayed, among the classes other photos in our exhibition at treaty brewery.
The texture and rib like configuration of the head are styles that I would evolve into my later clay depictions in relation to my body. This was one of the first shapes I would use to express movement and morph expression of form in my pieces.