Studio: Floor Painting + Stainless Steel

Process of placement:

Polishing with acetone to remove pen marks.

Small details of discolouration from the plasma cutter.

Finished Placement of Steel

Reflection:

• Process of making this piece: I played around with the placement constantly, and only fit pieces of steel into the painting if they looked like they should go there. This process took days until I was satisfied.The placement of the metal wasn't random - I was responding to the marks in the paint. I also wanted to in keep with the way that I applied the paint, which was with an ink roller in a Criss-cross formation. I kept the lengths of the steel either side ways or horizontal, and they follow similar lines of what was made with the paint. If a piece of steel didn't look right within the painting, I had to remove it. 

•  Before the steel was placed I washed it, polished it, bent it so it was flat. 

•  This process was very material based - I ended up having to polish the metal with my fingers as everything else seemed to scratch it. 

• Whats the difference of this kind of mark making/ the placement of metal, than the placement of metal on a canvas?

• Lighting and placement will be important for this piece. 

Exhibition Placement Designs:

Testing flat stainless steel:

Reflection:

• These were flat pieces of stainless steel (so not distorted ones with hammer marks) It didn't work well with the other pieces of stainless steel, it disrupted the piece.
• I'm not sure if this piece needs anything else adding to it yet, such as more pieces of stainless, I need to wait until feedback. 

Final Note:

• I was very meticulous with placing the stainless steel onto the board, and didn't want any of the adhesive to show, but upon reflection, I feel that the steel needs to be moulded more into the board, or connected more to the surface as there are some small gaps (shown in the photo above). 
• I thought about welding the stainless steel to the board, but after talking to Rob he suggested there was no way that this would work as the steel is too thin, so it would melt the steel, and also the board would burn up and cause a mess. 
• Thinking about other ways to close this gap, I could place filler around the edges and paint the filler - though this could look messy. I could stick the steel on with thick blobs of black acrylic paint instead, though this would also look messy and may not work in terms of sticking the steel down.