Independent Sculpture 2

 

In this sculpture, I focus on my childhood and my love of dollhouses as well as collecting small trinkets. I use these two ideas and blend them together to create a dollhouse storage box. While the box itself looks like a typical doll house, the back of it reveals 8 miniature boxes which allow me to store some of the trinkets that I find most precious to me. My color pallet for this piece is bright and fun which connects deeply with me. These are colors I would not have chosen as a child, but as a young adult, I love them. On the other hand, with the construction of the dollhouse and the addition of the storage element, my eight or ten-year-old self would have adored it. I wanted to create this piece to blend time together. To show how my young self and my adult self can still correspond and create together. The construction took significant work, and I was concerned it came out looking like something from Michaels or another large art supplies superstore, but I strongly believe the intention as well as the color choices help relate it back to me and show the immense dedication, detail, and time spent on this piece. dedication

Independent sculpture 1

 In this sculpture, I faced the ideas of beauty, death, trapped happiness, and beauty in death. This piece was incredibly important to me because I based it off of some of my emotions connected to the death of my childhood, and beloved, cat. I wanted to explore the beauty of death, the sadness of beauty, and the combinations of both. The delicate white bone flower not only shows death, but it shows beauty as well. This gorgeous combination allows the viewer to make their own decisions on death and attempt to come to terms with it. The delicate cage and chain symbolize trapped happiness as well as the entrapments of death. the delicate bone flower is wrapped up in chains and in a cage to represent the traps of beauty, happiness, and death. The creation of this unique and slightly morbid piece has helped me come to terms with the passing of my cat and has allowed me to better move forward in the grieving process. 

Sculpture 5

 

These two images are my two ideas for sculpture four. In this sculpture, we take two objects and put them together to create a new and different meaning for what the objects are.

I chose to do the second sculpture with the clothes pins and eyeballs. 

Sculpture 3/4

 

Car Keys

In this sculpture project, our objective is to create an object exactly as it was in life. From this, we were supposed to position, mold, and create a sculpture from these repeated objects. I used this sculptural piece to recreate my fiat 500 car key. I wanted to think about the multitude of cars and the effect that cars have on our planet. By using multiple keys and balancing them in such a way, allows the viewer to see the fragility that cars and their emissions have caused on our planet and its ecosystem. 

Sculpture 2

 

Through this piece I wanted to explore how I could make nature and landscapes more simplistic, geometric, and abstract. My vision for this piece was to use the plaster on top of the foam pieces to help create flow and movement in the piece. I wanted to use color to help enhance and better show what the piece was. However I believe my preference of more realistic art got in the way of this piece reaching its full ability. There are a few things I would change about this piece. First off I would have been happier if I could have spent more time in the plaster and truly build up the plaster and the movement within the plaster. Second I would have like to have created a more stable piece that connected better. Lastly, I would have left the piece without color. I believe this would have let the piece be more abstract and let the viewer ponder what it was exactly that they were looking at. Similarly, I believe the colors only muddy the sculpture and make it to literal. 

First Sculpture Piece:

 

Through this piece I explored themes of balance in the negative space but also balance in the structure of the piece, upward motion, and stability. In the theme of balance, I wanted to create a piece that provided negative space. Similarly I have been fascinated and slightly influenced by the artist Alexander Calder and his use of balance in his sculptures. During our class, we discussed the use of motion in the piece and how certain motions can effect the piece. I wanted to have an upward and open motion in the piece to give it a more open and airy feel to it. Lastly one of my main struggles for this piece was stability. I tried a few different ways on how to keep the piece stable and upright and I came upon a simple piece going across the bottom to creat the stability that was needed. 

Personal Project

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