Cold Lay Tarmac Experimentation- SLAB

I began my first experiment trying to lay to sticky granules of tarmac over this cling filmed structure. I quickly learned that my intentions of making this material do things other than being stamped flat into the ground was going to be a lot harder to achieve. The cling film kept moving everywhere, the bits dont stick together very well at first as it is my warm hands that makes it soft and crumbly- let alone trying to make it go vertically up a surface. Luckily my technician was able to substitute this poorly made structure for a spare square silicone mould that I could use for this experimental piece.

In these images you can see that it was necessary for me to use the industrial presser to try and get the material to stay and bind together quicker. Luckily because the mould is silicone I was able to bend one of the corners to see if it would set that way- producing a curled (or drooping, depending on how its displayed) paving slab.

Unfortunatley over quite some time, the paving slab has not yet decided to set and am almost certain it would crumble apart once removed from the slab.