I decided to go back to my regular type of sculpting and ended up deep diving into the process and not taking a lot of pictures because sculpting is messy, but I am going the skyscraper route. I made a lot of circular shapes by wrapping plaster around balloons which was interesting, but I think the two forms contrast too much.
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She's done! I really like how the layout came out- I ended up taking the suggestions to do some horizontal and some vertical as well as cutting some pieces in half to make the spacing a little more interesting! I really really liked how this piece turned out. Up close and in person the details are so much clearer.
I've been trying to collect "found" items around the house but I'm having a hard time finding items that I think are meaningful. I'm also worried about adding too much weight to the sculpture since it is a relief piece and I don't want it to be too front heavy. I'd honestly prefer the look of taking an entire item and just wrapping it, like a milk jug or like larger items, but that feels too Duchamp to me. I think instead I'm going to go back to my buildings but try other buildings- I'm thinking emulating a skyscraper would be good because it could be a large piece like I originally wanted and I can still use the same technique I did for my other sculptures.
Okay I cut up the pieces (which was oddly so satisfying) and it turns out I didn't even need the whole second painting thing I did so that's nice since I liked the first one so much more. I ended up doing a teeny tiny bit of line work with the pens but then not loving it so I didn't do too much and kinda left it at the few marks. I'm having a surprisingly difficult time figuring out what layout I want to organize this in. I was originally going to just do simple horizontal lines with some pieces covered by the translucent paper but Shreya said it looked way too simple so now I'm just messing around with the layout and being scared to commit.
I'm not entirely sure where I want to go with this next project. I was originally thinking of making a large self-standing sculpture thats essentially the same as my first small hut but extra large, but I'm slowly falling out of love with that idea because it feels boring and repetitive. I talked to Coach about it and he suggested doing a relief sculpture with found objects as a way of returning to the idea of familiar but not, and I really like that idea. I kind of feel like that idea would stray really far from what I'm doing with the buildings-vibe right now, but I think its a really good way to further my content.
I'm really liking where this piece is going!! I got some cool thumbtacks which I'm going to use to pin the pieces of this painting thing after I finish and cut it up but I really like how the layering is going. I think I need a second painting thing to have enough squares to put on the foam core so I started a second but I weirdly don't like it as much as the first. I'm debating about whether I should add any like white ink pen or black sharpie to the piece for detailing or not- I don't want to kill the fun line form I have going on with the overlapping but without some grid like details I feel like it doesn't connect back to my past general works enough.
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