Week 4

After last week in class I went away with three nice, detailed moulds of the toy gun I brought in. In the meantime between my final class, I was thinking on something I could pour into the mould. I came to the idea of chocolate. I felt there was quite a strong contradiction between a gun and chocolate. Guns are obviously very imposing and threatening objects, whereas chocolate is seen as a rather more innocent option. Again it could be argued that chocolate kills just as many people as guns could, but I decided to take a more naive approach. I brought two large bars of chocolate, melted them and poured them into the cast to set.

After a few hours they were ready, and it was after this that I realised that my final piece for this project was not nessessarily the final cast, but rather the documenting of what I did with the cast.

I started to wonder how I could use the chocolate gun in pictures, bearing in mind that it couldnt be held for too long before it would start to melt! So I started off by getting people to pose with it. I used my boyfriend to begin with, asking him to hold it in a fairly menacing way, as if threatening himself:

After this I wanted to create a scene almost, so I used both my boyfriend again and my dad to act with the gun. Sam (the boyfriend), probably didnt enjoy this too much, as it involved him being threatened with the gun by my dad. I didnt get too many good shots here, as most comprised of them laughing, but I feel the perspective of a couple of them arent too bad: