Ellipsis...

Ellipsis  

The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.

"it is very rare for an ellipsis to occur without a linguistic antecedent"

A set of dots (…) indicating an ellipsis.

An ellipsis floating in the studios for all to see...

You could say I saw this as an ellipsis continuing on from my hat stand ! 

     I took lots of polystyrene balls, and handmade balls from tightly wrapped paper.

A mix of the polystyrene and handmade balls 

I began painting them

Individually I painted each ball and also altered the shapes and forms of them, and began gluing the shapes together.

I painted each ball slightly different

On my studio desk 

The idea was to create three large round cluster like shapes, then suspend them in a row from the ceiling, to create a floating ellipsis.

Cluster 1

Cluster 2

Cluster 3

I mainly only photographed the work for my own documentation so the photos are not a fantastic quality however I really liked the scale in them. The people in the exhibition space look as though they are tiny next to these gigantic balls because I took the photos from quite up close. I love the slight unintentional optical illusion that came out in the photographs!

Hanging from the ceiling 

I like the scale in this one...

I got wonderful feedback for this work and just generally had a lot of fun making them! 


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Alexzandria