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Fancy
having your torso immortalised for posterity? Delia Riley and Jo
Arbuckle of Immortaleyes may be able to help. |
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The
two friends and Queenspark residents create sculptures through life
casting — taking molds from people's bodies. |
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The
process sees them make a negative mold of the body part they want to
sculpt, which they then use to create the final work. |
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They
work with a product called stone plaster, and can capture features
as detailed as veins and wrinkles on hands. |
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But
they don't simply make molds for clients. |
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They
add props and designs, hand paint the finished products and
generally let their artistry and imagination take over. |
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Props
can include clothes and designs people such as ferns, and can be
added before or after the molding process. |
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"We
use the body as our canvas," said Jo, 31. |
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"It
has unleashed our talent." |
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She
said they had only been doing the sculpting since the start of this
year and it had "just run and taken on its own momentum." |
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Delia,
33, said they both came from nursing backgrounds but had creative
talents they had always wanted to tap into. "We just jumped in
with both feet," said Delia |
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"We
had both always wanted to channel the artistic side of
ourselves," Jo said. |
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They
enjoyed working as a team, often bouncing ideas off each other. A
concept would start in one form but the final work would end up as
something completely different. |
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"Problem
solving is the good part They often evolve as they go along,"
Jo said. |
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She
said the sculpting gave them a lot of pleasure. |
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"You
just get lost in the process." |
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"You
are only limited by your imagination. We are both stubborn and don't
give up on it easily. It is all good fun." |
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Delia
said they had a philosophy that "it will work no matter
what" when it came to their ideas. And the sculpting has other
bonuses. The two women, who are both mothers, get to go shopping for
props, and the work gives them a chance to get acquainted with power
tools — essential ingredients to turn their creativity into reality. |
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They
operate a website at www.immortaleyes.co.nz |
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