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.
Okay so I know the first image of what I started with is kind of funny and very bland but I based it off a building from Italy since that is what my very original huts were inspired from. I also opted for more of a recognizable building rectangle as opposed to my fluid lines because I really wanted to build craziness on top of this very very basic outline. Okay so I did a lot of stuff and to be honest I'm not sure if I like it or not? I used acrylic paint to highlight the curves of the shape where I had originally put colored pencil down to make it more prominent and then outlined the shapes (where the paint pen was) in white acrylic paint. I really wish the paint pens had worked out better because it was really hard to get as thin of a line that I wanted evenly. It ended up a lot looser and more like a painting than I had hoped, but I', not mad at it. I feel like presented side by side with my sculptures it would look pretty cool. I also added the plastic sheet on top to kind of finish it off, and I like how it looks.
Okay so I tried to outline the shapes in paint pen but for some reason the paint isn't showing up as brightly as I wanted and how it was showing up on my practice paper. I'm not sure if I want to outline on top of the plastic sheet though, because I feel like it would be too prominent and then the lines would look crazy thick- I also don't want to outline the shapes too much because I like the under layers better than the outline. I also added colored pencil because I thought it might make the piece more interesting but I feel like you can't even see it from far away. I didn't want to originally but I think I'm going to have to add some acrylic paint- I think it's the only thing that will really stand out on the black paper.
Okay so today I was trying to reformat my website and stuff and I was looking over my artists statement and I kinda realized that I've really strayed from the original content I was trying to convey as I have begun to dabble in this architectural realm. I still want my work to have that "familiar but unfamiliar" message and thought, but I think I have been moving more into "unfamiliar" territory than intended. It's cool and I don't dislike my in class project, but I think I want to take a step backwards. I think instead of doing a sculpture with not a lot of meaning I'm going to kind of immitate Franz Cline, like how he abstracted his chairs as subjects by zooming in really close and then using both black and white for the negative and positive space. I think That'll be a fun thing to explore- start with the familiar and then slowly cloak it in the unfamiliar. Also, to be honest, I'm just really not in the mood to sculpt.
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