Monday, March 17, 2014

Combine Dental Art with Ben-Day Dots

I'm not too sure yet if my project is going to be another floor piece much like my turtle sculpture, wall piece, or maybe even an installation. But, I think I will be definitely incorporating Ben-Day dots into my project by using some sort of circular dental item and sugar casting it. I want to use Ben-Day dots because they make almost any artwork seem relevant because it turns the art into pop art, in a way. In addition to becoming more modern, the use of Ben-Day dots would allow me to create an overlay of dots which could result in a more 3-D finished project instead of a flat or planar view of the project.

An idea of what the composition of Ben-Day dots look like closely.
Famous pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein used these dots to create many large scale
comic strips and illustrations as well as installations.

So far, I have made a silicone mold of a dental floss box and created a proportioned box to pour plaster into it. My dental alginate still hasn't arrived yet, but I think that when it does, the box will be fitting for my teeth molds are well because it's a medium sized box. I'm thinking about making the teeth castings not the central part of the project anymore, but a main aspect of it. I think that maybe casting dental items and tools such as toothbrushes or spoon excavators could be very fitting.

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