The lyric I used for this piece was "Another day staring at the ceiling", from Breathe by Telepopmusik (http://www.lyricsmania.com/breathe_lyrics_telepopmusik.html)
Originally,the design would have been more complicated, I forgot initially the the primary focus had to be on the symbols, in this case, binary (replacing 1 with a triangle, 0 with a circle), so I took away some of the complications so that the symbols/code acted as the complications, made so by the intricate contrast of the pattern covering the surface of the foam head and wine glass. This piece represents lying down, staring at the ceiling for an extended amount of time while affected by some sort of depressant, in this case, alcohol as represented by the wine glass. The glass also acts as the line of sight for this individual, staring upwards. The clockface replacing the eyes and nose represent the eyes themselves in a stationary position for an amount of time. I chose binary (replaced with shapes) so a more minimal approach was used, I didn't want over-complexity. The difference between the black sharpie and white head and glass were complex enough as mentioned above. I'm really fond of the surreal, especially in sculpture/model form in which they exist as dimensional objects, so I'm proud of the end result. The main difficulties were cutting the back of the head as an even (sort of) surface so it could lie on a surface. I only used an x-acto blade, so it took some time. Another issue that arose was gluing the wine glass to the clock-face, both plastic surfaces. Leave a Reply. |
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