Shadows and reflections

The curled paper shapes gave an exciting sense of movement before attaching to a sketchbook page. Although the flattened shapes work well, I'd love to be able to make a 3D sketchbook.

Strong sunshine often appears on my work table during the mornings, highlighting some unexpected delights when using translucent material. The thread becomes a solid line, the scratchmarks become fine marks and the melted holes become rows of rings along the shape edges.

 Shadows become a necessary and important added extra to 3D strips of plastic wrapped lo

sley around bundles of painted cane in 'Loss 3'. 

Strong light doubles up the lines and shapes in these shadows made by holding the cane structure, 'Tidal Pool 3' away from the table surface. 

This happened spontaneously in the gallery when the sun created shadows on the wall cast by a suspended 'Tidal Pool 3'  that overlapped its sister piece 'Tidal Pool 1' - below right.

 'Extinction' was hung from the underside of a shelf where the suspended bottle forms cast shadows from the gallery ceiling spot lights'.

 So many angles from which to photograph these shadows.....

 

 ....shadows that seemed to combine with the plastic forms to create new forms.

Noticing the unintended shadows led to thoughts  of creating intentional shadows from the forms I'd produced.

 

 Shadows were made to elongate dramatically

 Different angles of the camera and rotating the plastic form gave a range of different shadows as these hollow plastic pebble forms show. A slight change of angle gave a variety of shapes that seemed to extend the actual form sometimes suggesting intriguing creature-like forms.