One Week Away

We are one week away from our opening. After many, many selection hours I have almost all my photos down to the final 16. Tomorrow I will official select the 16, edit them, and hopefully print so on Sunday I can frame them all up. I tested the whole frame deal this evening. I like some of the aesthetic ideas I came up with. One hill I am going to have to climb is cutting the plexi and also drilling holes into the thinner pieces. I discovered tonight that with the drill press (at least with the speed it is at now) in our shop the plexi breaks when drilling holes into it. I do want some of the edges to be cracked, but  I need the holes!
Tomorrow we are going to the space to clear out our previous installation. Rachel and I will be talking specifics after we clear out space.

Cerith Wyn Evans


This will be me:

One to the next one!

The next project I will be embarking on for Sculpture Class is part of Rachel and my senior design project (see next post for details).
I will create a large baby mobile to hang in the gallery. From the mobile my photographs will hang.

Example of Mobile:

I would like the bars to be simple and to have a total of 7 photos hanging from the mobile. So I will need a total of 3 bars which will make space for 6 photos and then I will have one from the middle like the above photo shows.

The Tornado Outcome

 Some Process Photos:

The End Result

Junk Shaped into Objects - Much like my plan

Existing Tornado Sculptures

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The objects I will replicate

My sculpture will be modeled after a tornado.

I also wish to add body like structures.

The idea is that the junk I used to collect weighed on my brain and on my being. I am ridding of myself of my junk and becoming a more clear being.
I am transitioning.

Another Artist of Inspiration

I remember discovering Anastassia's "Rouleaux" work a few months ago and falling in love.  Her work on this project inspires me in the same way Vargas' does -- that she created such beautiful work with the simplest objects.

I have no fear that I can create with just about anything and that is why I am falling for sculpture more and more.

Anastassia Elias

Found Objects Sculptor

I recently discovered Bart Vargas when I was researched ideas for our installation piece. The works I am most captivated by are "The Bitter Pill (2010)" "The Golden Bottleball (2010)" and "E-Waste Sculptures (2010)".

Finding his work came at the right time for me. It hasn't been until this year that I have felt a spark in me to create sculptures. Prior to this year I was never too interested in sculpture work, writing it off before really giving it a chance. I also have been nervous about moving to Los Angeles and not having the needed materials and space to create and build sculptures. However, I have realized, partly due to Bart Vargas' work and our class, that I can create artwork out of the simplest objects found everywhere and anywhere.

I hope this spark stays with me in the months to come after graduation and I want to create art out of found objects. For our specific installation I will use only junk of my own.


Bart Vargas - Sculptor

A bit of Inspiration

I decided to look around on the web to find some interesting sculptures using found objects for inspiration. For my individual piece I want to pull inspiration from some sort of natural disaster. (tornado, monsoon, etc)



Use of Chairs

Use of Thread

Big Bang 2

Installation

Prior to enrolling in Sculpture class I had a plan for a personal installation. The idea came to me when I began to clean out my room. Last term I felt very weighed down by my excess junk. There are so many things that I have been holding on to for years that I do not need. I would feel too bad to just throw these things away. Because it was something that irked to a point I couldn't stand last term I thought of the idea of making it into an installation. My first thought was to collect all the junk from my home in Pittsburgh and my home here in Winston and tack it up on some sort of structure and stick it downtown somewhere. The idea behind the project "Unhoard Yourself". This to me could mean anything; getting rid of excess junk, letting a relationship go, a grudge, forgiving someone. Something you needed to get off your chest and out of your mind.
For the class installation I would like to use the same materials and incorporate the same idea into the larger installation. My goal is to build the structure in three different places and take photos of each. The structure and setting of each photo would portray the fact that these things you hold onto follow you everywhere. They will fester on your brain until you face them. The first photo would be set up in my bedroom. I have two ideas for this setting. One of me sleeping in bed with the structure menacingly towering over me while I sleep. The other idea: attaching all the pieces to one wall in my room scattered about in a whirlwind like manor. Below the whirlwind will be a brain either painted, drawn, or sculpted itself. As if all these things were weighing on the brain.
These photos are something I must accomplish before the class installation to avoid losing or ruining pieces or losing interest in the idea all together. 

 The always amazing...

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