Richard Pledge

Captured Covid

A representation of a corona virus. 3-D Sculpture, Mix Media, 2020.

The spherical internal structure is formed from the fused deposition of a Glycol Modified version of Polyethylene Terephthalate, textured with Polyvinyl alcohol and the dried leaves of Camellia sinensis and then coloured with various pigmented acrylic polymer emulsions.

The people are made from a synthetic aromatic hydrocarbon polymer, also coated in pigmented acrylic polymer emulsions. The outer sphere is an non-crystalline, transparent amorphous solid, comprising mostly of Silicon dioxide and Sodium carbonate.

The whole form rests upon a turned piece of Swietenia macrophylla.