For our first project we had to take a walk in a park and collect different types of twigs. Using the twigs we had to make a sculpture that reflected place and growth.
Process
The first part of this project was that we had to take a walk. Since I live around and behind a forest with a creek, I walked along the creek for about an hour and a half. While I was on my walked, I looked at all the different trees and the lines that made them up. Some trees were thicker than others and some trees had curved lines while other had straight lines. All of these different lines gives the forest a chaotic vibe. I was also very interested in the inflorescence of the trees and how the branches went off into different path ways.
The next step was to play around with the twigs and the hot glue to get a better understanding of how they work, so we had to make a smaller scale sculpture as practice. I took the ideas of the branches and the inflorescence and tried to put those elements into my smaller sculpture. After finishing my smaller sculpture and hearing the feedback from other that I had to make more 3D and elongate it .
After practicing with the smaller sculpture, it was time to make the bigger sculpture. When thinking of the idea of bigger sculpture, I knew I wanted to make something similar to my smaller sculpture. But as I started to make the sculpture, I realized that I wanted to do something different. So started with two twigs that I hot glue together into a v shape them build the rest of the sculpture. While I was building the sculpture, it started to look like a house or a nest to me. It like some little fae’s home, and the sculpture was becoming more of a home with strong walls since all I had was thick twigs. The thick twigs and the twigs with the buds on them made use then to create some different line movements. After a while I was stuck on what else to add to my sculpture, so I decided so stop and wait until I hear the feedback back on my sculpture to see how to move forward.
My Critique Statement
For our first project I would say my biggest success had to be that in my opinion I made my sculpture have an interesting form. Also even though I changed the design of my sculpture, I was successful in getting the shape that I wanted. As for struggles, I feel as if I had two main ones. The first struggle being that I got burned for the hot glue and had to stop for a day. The second struggle and biggest struggle was trying not to make the sculpture look like anything specific. When I first started making the sculpture, it was starting to look like a ladder to me. So I flipped it around until I got an interesting form. For feedback, I want to know the good things and bad things about my sculpture.I want to know what I have to work on and what I’m doing good.
Finished sculpture
I took the feedback from the class critiques and build up my sculpture. I know that I didn’t want to put to much on the top of the sculpture, because I didn’t want it to be top heavy and break the twigs supporting it. Over all I think my final sculpture looks much different then the smaller practice sculpture I started out with. The hardest part was pushing myself to get the sculpture to be more in the round and 3D. In the end the sculpture ending up looking the way I wanted it too; to look like some kind of house for a small being.
Site Installation
For me the definition of Place is some location that has meaning or importance to someone or a group of people. To me the one place in my live that has always been important to me is my home. My home is me and many people’s safe place. Its the people we go to after a long day of work or school, to relax or rest. Its the place that we put the most effort into, the place that we make the most like us and in the end it becomes a mirror image of our selves. So since my home is my Place, I put my sculpture in my garden and leave it there for a couple weeks. I can see the sculpture there everyday and watch the garden grow a around it.
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