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I made a dwelling, a 2 story building, out of a block of plaster molded from a box of chinese food. This sculpture characterizes the simplicity and usefulness of art because i completed two projects at once and was able to create an effective form without exerting too much effort. the value of one's art is not always measured by the time spent producing it...
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I used an old piece of a cherry tree where the wood had been spalted (damaged by fungus) which created the dark lines in the grain. I used a chainsaw to cut first down the center to separate the two halves, then i sculpted the edges to form two "snakes" that were supposed to appear to be twirling around each other. After the shaping was done, i did a little sanding and polishing to bring out the spalted grain and i was finished. And then drew dipped the heads in wax because he is a poopy head.
Aside from many health issues, I have created an effective vessel that can hold liquid. It was made by first creating a metal shape out of cut scraps that were welded together. Next, I broke a bottle into shards that were laid on the insides of the "cup" and melted in between the cracks. Unfortunately, metal expands when introduced to extreme heat while glass does not. Also, glass takes a really long time to cool down. So as the piece cooled the contracting metal around the glass combined with minor thermal shock caused the integrity of the cup to decrease significantly. Yes, it holds water, but small sharp fragments continue to fall from the remaining structure...almost a month and a half after it's completion. Still it was a fun experiment
a pit firing is when you put pottery in a dug out pit and put burning stuff on top of it and it looks like this: a saggar is when you cover your pottery with strips of paper or foil and it burns in the pit firing and leaves behind patterns like these paper (right) and foil (left) firings. here is what my attempt at a pit firing ended up looking like. it was supposed to be a bowl, but as you can see, it didn't work out so well. the actual firing, however, seems to have worked quite well. my primary chemical was copper sulfide in both powder and liquid form. this ended up turning the inside and some of the outside a faint greenish color. i feel like if it were polished or something it would look a lot cooler.
so I made a rhinoceros, which turned into a goose, which turned into a possum, which then finally decided it wanted to look like a dolphin, who apparently was vietnamese. Any who, rather than make your average run-of-the-mill dolphin, I decided to paint mine black and have him coming out of a splash of lava. Why? Bruh, because thug lyfe .
This piece was inspired by a concept of relief sculptures that I examined. When coming up with an idea for a relief sculpture, I took into consideration that my task was to take the image of a 3-dimensional object and describe it by confining it to a somewhat 2-dimensional plane with limited depth. Instead of creating a 2D image with a minimal 3rd dimension, I toyed with the idea of having sections of proportionate objects projecting slightly from the surface of the relief, much like a large stone protruding from a still pond. I realized that I could create a sculpture where not all of the subject was represented. Rather, it would be understood that, although the full figure was not present, the remainder of the figure is hidden beneath the surface. My first thoughts were to have that surface be water, but wanting my sculpture to have more contextual meaning, decided there should be a valid reason for the half-immersed effect I planned to create. Rather than water, I used quicksand, and had a man sinking into it.
we were instructed as a class to create relief sculptures out of cardboard. while my colleauges constructed lions and soccer balls, I decided to take a more clever approach and effectively used a piece of cardboard to depict another piece of cardboard. I call this piece: "Irony"
Fascinating 3D-Printed Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculpturesby Christopher Jobson on January 14, 2015 These 3d-printed zoetrope sculptures were designed by John Edmark, and they only animate when filmed under a strobe light or with the help of a camera with an extremely short shutter speed. He shares about the project: These are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers. |
backgroundI don't really have any particular background with sculpting or sculptures. Archives
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