It's September, working on some new ideas, which started out as a celebration of one of Accrington's most famous products, the Accrington Nori brick, the best in the orld, and used in foundations of the Empire State building
All ideas evolve and having made a mould to create a paper Nori brick, initially using mashed up news paper, I wondered if I could create one using toilet roll paper
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Introducing the ‘SCHIT-A-BRIQUE’ , the Brick with Attitude
After making bricks based on the classic Accrington Nori
brick, using mashed up newspaper, I successfully used soaked cheap toilet roll
paper, and the Schit-a-brique was born.
The original idea was to celebrate the Nori brick , so a new
mould was made allowing names to be imprinted on the brick, so now the
Schit-a-brique came of age.
Space allowed 1 or 2
lines to be created, each with a maximum of 8 letters, which could be extended
to 10.
This meant that ‘ACCRINGTON’ would fit but ‘OSWALTWISTLE’ would not unless I split it
over 2 lines.
The mould for the brick has been designed so that either a
full sized brick or a brick shaped tile can be produced . I have produced both
bricks and tiles using either newspaper or toilet paper, each having their own
special characteristics. The tiles are light enough to be used in my 3D
artwork, and mounted on canvass.
I am trying out a few ideas, including people’s names, local
town names, newspapers and radio stations In fact any wording that can be
fitted in the space, assuming I have enough of each letter
Full sized bricks can be used for building things, as long as they don't get wet, but the brick tiles can be fixed to picture canvass, and produce something thoughtful, possibly controversial
