Hot glue gun art

This show that hot glue gun artwork gives the same look as glass but its not as strong s glass unless you build it up i amd going to do crate some samples from inspiration of this reserach and how i work with the glue gun.

George Schultz’s glue gun in 1971.

A hot glue gun is a device you control with your hand that takes a glue stick and deposits thick and hot glue adhesive. Patents can be found as far back as 1907, but with research, you will find that George Schultz is credited for creating the polygun, a hot glue gun, in 1971.

Artwork by Esma Paca Turam

Turkish artist Esma Paca Turam draws images with a hot glue gun, resulting in fantastic hanging curtains. She has received public attention in publications since around 2003 and shows her work internationally. (If you happen to find an earlier article, post it as a comment!)

She talks about living in a crowded city, and how she has “been fascinated with the communication between different people. Spectators (2002, solo exhibition, paper sculptures) was about this. I was focusing on the individual in its urban surroundings. The interaction between the people through their surroundings: windows and figures were emphasized people were watching and being watched through the windows or the laundry hanging on a balcony was giving away so much about the occupants of that house.

Artwork by Esma Paca Turam

“This was new to me, almost a shock,” Turam says about living in the city. “I had been living in a crowded city, but obviously I was making space for myself. My experience in Beijing led to the making of the “Curtain” (2004 Silicone Figurines). This work is the expression of the individuals floating in the crowd. Their individuality is expressed by emphasis on the movement and details, eyes and hair of the figurines.”

Artwork by Esma Paca Turam

And about using the glue in her work, “I always liked watching the raindrops coming together, flowing down a window a meditative and peaceful movement. Probably with this idea, I had been working with Silicone since 1994. My technique is to use a hot glue gun and therefore the silicone works almost like a pencil for me. The outcome is transparent, flexible. It shimmers like crystal or glass, it is light in weight like paper and it is a direct material. Most important for me is that I can draw directly with this material.

I was looking for a lace type of effect for the curtain, to be able to look at it from both sides. Silicone just clicked in as the right material for the work.”