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Plasticine
(redirected from Plasticene)

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Plasticine
™ a soft coloured material used, esp by children, for modelling


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This isn't plasticene or metal to be contorted any which way you like.
Forms were derived by stretching and moulding plasticene, considering access requirements and formal adjacencies.
Situated between the fragile clover and the precious gold bug, this agglutination (which the artist describes as "tomentose," "blood red when wounded") looked like an obscene quantity of plasticene pushed into a provisional place, its surface carefully smoothed and articulated to resemble something--but nothing I've ever seen; possibly viscera, though the context suggested fungi.
 
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