Ghost Tables

Plaster immersed table cloths, suspended in the studio with light.

Following a tutorial with Pete, I took the petrifying process to a larger scale and experimented with laying sheets of plaster immersed fabric over things and removing the original objects.  Above are 2 table cloths with the tables removed.  They are rigid enough to stand alone, though I suspended the patterned cloth just above the studio floor and lit it from beneath to accentuate the absence of the original table.

Creases in the fabric are intentional and exist to suggest a former human presence, as frozen impressions of their interaction with the object.