Self-Reflection Questions:
Envision | Express
Restate your intentions for this project--how did you combine abstracting the figure with an outside influence?
Develop Craft |Engage and Persist
How did you push yourself to gain a better understanding of the physical properties of the plaster? In what ways did you come to better control the various tools you employed?
Stretch and Explore
In what ways did your intentions change over the course of your project? What opportunities or occurrences led to these changes?
What were some of the specific formal areas you focused on to realize your piece? how did you employ form, gesture, texture to reinforce your intentions?
photographs for this blog post--
1. documentation of sculpture
2. documentation of the group process response from the critique
3. document of final sculptural grouping
My figure was intended to be a hand holding balloon like figures. It was supposed to reflect the motion of being held down, but has the possibility to go anywhere. Just like if you let a balloon go, it will fly away, and it has the capability of traveling everywhere. My object ended up being a rock like bottom with lines for an abstract finger look with round 'balloon' looking things attached to the top, but being held down.
In the beginning I had just been 'stabbing' at my plaster block, assuming that it would just take form on its own. But soon realizing that my method was not working out as I had planned. I took more careful into rounding more with the 'cheese grater' and my objects too shape. After I stabbed myself in the finger, it added more motivation to my work and more care. I would try harder, a: to not hurt myself again, and b: to put more effort into my work. I had a hard time understanding some of the tools in the beginning, but soon got more comfortable with them and my work and became a better artist.
I employed a very smooth balloon figure on the top because I really wanted to emphasize the freedom and smoothness that balloons have the capability to be. I did this by shaving away the rougher parts with a rounding method with the cheese grater. It worked better then I had thought, so I stuck with it. The bottom has a rougher texture, implying the ground is rough but one can fly away (like the balloons) that I had abstractly sculpted.
