Wax was not an easy material to research into, but one artist who I found to use wax is Swiss artist Urs Fischer.
His ‘What if the Phone Rings ‘ Exhibition in 2003 (London ) displayed 3 life size wax figures melting throughout the show.
‘’ My work never ends up looking the way I intended... all that matters is if the artwork takes on a life of its own’’ Urs Fischer
Forwarding to my desire of using wax – what if wax had a life of its own? What if it was an ever changing scene?
In Frieze magazine archive, Editor Tom Morton quoted this piece of Fischers work to be
‘’The piece, as the inertia of its title ironically suggests, is about losing control and then gaining it again, about being OK with things going wrong because you’re confident that you can fix them, or that they’ll work themselves out over time’’
Finding this reference has strongly made me realise that ‘control’ is possibly not the way forward, but something that is restricting me. Maybe letting something runs its course will create new idea and concepts.
Tom Morton also quoted
‘’ While in one sense the melting sculpture is a clock, and in another a meditation on the impossibility of ever experiencing a work of art in a meaningfully ‘final’ way (how can we, if its form changes the moment we turn our backs?)’’
Tom Morton, Frieze, Roll with it, Issue 86, Oct 2004
Final, Finish, End… these are words which I don’t believe exists in designers life – there can always be so much more you can do to it to improve no matter how ‘finished’ you think your product is. I really like the concept of this ‘never ending’ change. Although there may not be eternity, there is change and ‘reincarnation’ of a piece of work – what if I was to transform ‘one’ life into another state?