For this project, each student made multiple pieces of red clay with different shapes, patterns and textures. These pieces were all fired and then each of us were to make a sculpture using these pieces that others have created. This made for a more instinctual approach to the sculpture rather than building it from the ground up with what it means and how it'll look. Omitting the pre-planning process (sketching, etc.) of creating this sculpture was a really interesting and new method to me, and I found that it pushed my creativity by creating this limitation. I used 3 different paints, red, white and black, and painted along the edges of the pieces as well lightly brushing over them so the paint only caught the most superficial surfaces, visually enhancing the potpourri of textures that appear among the individual components of the sculpture.
This was a pretty open-ended assignment in regards to what we were allowed to make, so I decided to tackle a subject matter I've never done before with art, and that is my experience with track and what I've seen from others in sports. I was a sprinter and jumped hurdles back when I did track from 7th grade to freshman year in high school, and that is expressed here in this sculpture by the legs high up and in running formation, as well as a purple hand on the ground in starting position. The swirls represent the sensation of lactic acid pulsing through muscles and the dizziness or disoriented feeling after a hard sprint. This is further reinforced by the face that's glued to the purple spiral. The face was made the way it was so that anyone could mirror themselves onto this sculpture so it didn't represent me exclusively. As I've mentioned, this sculpture also arose out of what I've seen from others in sports, especially their passion and determination (which I didn't have a lot of), and this is expressed in the red and light blue tear shapes jetting out opposite to the direction of the runner, the blood and sweat spent on perfecting one's skills and technique.
Overall I'm happy with the outcome of this sculpture both symbolically and as a stand-alone art piece. BackstabberThis installation is comprised of a simple wooden chair on its side with the feet enclosing a "snake den" of red string and shreds of paper from an adult coloring book. The majority of the model is untouched and clean. The seat of the chair has four strips of paper with a simple design as opposed to the highly designed strips in the "den". The overall superficial simplicity quickly transitions to the focal point, the den, full of overlapping strips and diversity in direction and shape. It's a quick shift from simple to complex, from calm or boring to chaotic.
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