Resin Pour Experiments

stepping into the weird waters of the Voynich Manuscript pools…

The more I experiment with epoxy resin, it feels like the ideal material to use in sculptures that require the appearance of water. The resin bonds to both glass and porcelain—two materials that can be difficult to fuse together in other ways due to their incompatible heating/cooling requirements in the kiln—and it adds a whole new dimension of translucency while also acting as the “glue” that holds everything together. In this instance, it supports the figure and also makes her look to be partially submerged in a pool. The resin can be tinted any color and with any degree of translucency. As you’ll see in the photos it can look almost luminous when lit from the right angle. This may be something I want to accentuate as I make the lower half of the sculpture, so I might incorporate a light into the base of the sculpture that illuminates the cup and figure from below. That part is still in progress, but in the meantime, here are some more photos of the results so far, and a video I took of the resin process. The kind of resin that I used had to be poured in layers of up to an inch and a half at a time, with a 48 hour cure time before being able to pour another layer. Making 3 layers took some time!