For the last sculptures (period of january 2008 till juin 2009) I adapted the recipe of my papier-maché so that when it dries it becomes so hard and strong that afterwards I can pollish it and rub it with wax and bister (a brown colour gained from walnuts). That's why they have their brown bone-like or wood-like look.
Before that I used papier-maché together with latex. And even latex on its own, also.
With latex I could experiment with movebility and deformation, and that inspired me a lot. It's much more as life itself, changing and evolving. Unfortunately I also discoverd the downside of that: like everything that is alive, it starts to decay from the moment it's created.
Most of my sculptures in latex don't exist anymore.
Clic on the link to see an overview.
http://isabel-ouderwerk.blogspot.com/
