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Have more mercy than man.

Wizzy Wardle

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Hello! My name is Wizzy. I’m a tech art student at Wimbledon College of Arts. My interests are fantasy, realism, and maximalism. Ideally, I’d love to become a fabricator, a set designer, or work within prop and costume as a creator or designer. Both the film and theatre industry interest me, but I’m always open to try something new and work through problems to find solutions for tricky ideas.

Hello! My name is Wizzy. I’m a tech art student at Wimbledon College of Arts. My interests are fa...

My piece is inspired by the Althea Davis poem ‘for simply living’. A small passage of it that especially inspires me quotes “may the mice in the oil and the glue have forever dry, warm fur and full bellies. For if I am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man.”

To me, this captures the idea of a moment when you’re truly alone and you have nothing left to give or be taken, so you simply break down and process everything that’s ever happened, and finally you realize that maybe you are the mouse in the glue trap, and that you hope that death may show more mercy than mankind ever had.

Final work

The picture depicts a melancholy scene of a young pre-Raphaelite styled women, mourning the death of a fallen magpie.

Magpie

This is an up close picture of my Pre-Raphaelite lady so that you can see a few more of the details and some of the magpie.

This picture depicts an oversized toad with a long tongue. His tongue is dripping with strands of saliva and his mouth filled with many flies.

Toad on a toad stool

This is my toad I created his name is Tony SlyGuy. He was created using Silskin and two part expanding foam. The saliva in his mouth was created using UV resin and I used taxidermy flies for the bugs in his mouth.

This depicts the back of the lady, her blue cape stuck in the heather that surrounds her. She seems unfazed by the centipede that’s crawls on her head

Taxidermy

Pretty much all of the bugs that can be seen in my peice (which include all the butterflies, any Beatles and the dragonflies) are taxidermy with the exception of the centipede and the four spiders which I made using an oven bake clay.

a picture of a work room with a girl holding a torso shaped blue mould, removing the sculpture inside

The demolding process

Image above is a picture of me, the molding the torso of my lady.

She was cast in Silskin with about 3 to 4 layers, which are then followed with a layer of hessian that helps grab the expanding foam, which is them placed in the center as the core.

Research and process

Four photos depicting different elements of the creation process. Under painting of the silicon skin, taxidermy and two photos of the moulding process

Some of the work process

The top left photo is showing the process of the underlayer painting of the chest.

The top right photo is part of the process of my taxidermy.

The bottom left photo is the silicon layer that sits on the sculpture of my toad, this is part of the molding process.

The bottom right photo is the final layer of the molding process. This is what we call the jesmonite layer. This acts as a hard jacket around the silicon.

This photo depicts me the artists working on my final piece in my work room. I’m crouched down adding details.

In the work room

A little inside of photo into the work room and the processes behind the making.

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Have more mercy than man.

My piece is inspired by the Althea Davis poem ‘for simply living’. A small passage of it that especially inspires me quotes “may the mice in the oil and the glue have forever dry, warm fur and full bellies. For if I am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man.” <...

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