ART231 E-Portfolio Sculpture
Project One: Mold-Making & Casting
Day 1: Plastilina play time
Stylized shrimp hunt
Making a shrimp (aka croissant) that was originally “in the round”, into a 1-sided crustacean. This is a good method for dieting too, I’d assume.
Shrimp-love (found on Amazon - plastic food division…go figure).
Oops, was making the 1 part mold WAY more complicated than it needed to be. Lesson learned: see in reverse!
Pepe: King Prawn (do not, under any circumstances call him a shrimp)
The two gentleman that didn’t make the casting call.
Playing with my food. Shrimp lauburu.
Shrimping around in the notebook.
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Home on the range, backdrop framed.
Ride on, Tomahawk-Shrimp
The Ride of the famous Tomahawk-Shrimp, close up.
Project Two: Wood Assembly
Thick, rough cardboard modeling. Organic, even cellular perhaps. Lovely comfort in the chaos. Feels very reflective of me.
The warmth & beauty of Poplar. Surprisingly pliable and forgiving. Greens, veins, knots…life. Starting to play with how to make the recesses into the wood. Most of my trial and error were here. This particular knot was dark and very hard. It caused some burning in the piece, which helped tell the story. It’s my favorite spot in the sculpture.
Messy, yet satisfying. Grateful for the mask. Found a puffy cloud of sawdust in my hoodie later that evening.
Stitching wood with copper wire. An allegory of life’s scars and our choice to find beauty in the recovery…in the lessons and the journey. MVG’s morning coffee interpretation of the late night metal weaving practice. The final piece had hammered copper.
Oh thank you, Lily. This was the perfect fit to keep the warm tones alive in this Poplar play.
Critique day…focus on the pebbles placed which helped tell the story of Life’s Path. Look at those detailed and varied grains and patterns. Nature at it loveliest.
Birds-eye view of Life’s Path. Note the steps/phases along the front…the original, safe, expected path. Scars, holes, pain, recovery, beauty along the fractured line - now reinforced and celebrated with unbreakable bonds. A bridge formed over the past, leading us to the life that was probably always there, waiting for us. Forging new trails to the future, albeit unscripted and challenging at times. Life’s Path, we will never know what lies ahead.
Project Three: Metal Fabrication
Model study & positioning
Finding the energy between the dancers
Shadow play
Wire study in 3 parts (not fun to work with)
Template play with the base (mathematics on the kitchen floor).
Cardstock mockups helped visualize weight, layering, scale and order.
Measure twice, cut/bend once. Getting down to measure on both sides of the flat stock.
Sabrina, bless this beautiful girl. It was more work than she probably initially bargained for, however I think she was also proud with the fruits of our labor. She has a nice, steady hand for the metal bandsaw, which we used quite a bit.
Inside welds - nice and strong to support things to come. The outer welds could be more decorative this way.
The Space Between (backside view). Pre-velvet ribbon accent. Note, my favorite part is the top corner of the center section in this view. I hope to get an opportunity to make a companion piece to this and focus more on that technique/treatment.
Velvet ribbon in red and green. A play with the concept of eyesight connection between two dancers.
The Space Between (front view). In Boise State University’s critique space. 12.17.2019