Patricia Adler – Germany

CREATURE No. 3

Category: Modern

Description

The CREATURE No. 3 is one of the most fragile and difficult hats I have ever made. My inspiration for this hat came from “Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion“ by the British painter Francis Bacon. The figures depicted by Bacon seem overwhelming and battlesome at first glance. Yet a closer look exposes their vulnerability and fragility to me. That is the reason I chose porcelain as the material to mirror this diremption. The CREATURE No.3 combines the high-tech methods of CAD construction and CNC milling with the ancient technique of burning porcelain. The combination of the methods made it possible to me to bring out the attributes of Bacons figures. A poetical hat sculpture as a fusion of art and high fashion.

Materials

• Ureol polyurethan
• 2-component fine filler
• porcelain (white Limoges)
• plaster
• varnish
• water
• wool felt (as lining)

Techniques

• design: sketching with wax crayon, paper collages, paper sketch of the prototype design
• building the hat block: CAD software, CNC-milling machine, gluing with the fine filler, rasping, sanding, varnishing
• mould making: plastic mat, clay, liquid plaster, soap, adhesive tape
• pour the porcelain: dried plaster mould, tension belts, adhesive tape, liquid porcelain
• modelling the dried porcelain: spalpel, water, sponge, modelling tool
• burn the porcelain: porcelain kiln & patience