A Term of Sculpture

I just had my final intro to sculpture critique yesterday. Although I’m not really sure if its my medium, I really enjoyed the class and working on all the projects. We worked with plaster, metal, and wood (I did very little in metal since I really fell in love with wood working). What I found most surprising was how much time it took to do the simplest things. I did a lot of work with boxes; just cutting and gluing them together took most of my time. Anyway, here’s my three projects I did over the course of the term:

Project 1. Assignment: pick an object (I picked my boyfriend’s wisdom teeth he had removed and has kept in his car– in a baggie, but still gross– since he had them removed a few years ago). Create small models exploring the physical features of the object. Then create a large sculpture in plaster exploring one of these models.

Project 2. Assignment: Using at least two different materials, depict a gerund through sculpture. My gerund was ‘feeding’. I worked in wood and plaster.

Project 3. Assignment: Pick a architectural element– this was very loosely defined as anything man-made–and examine connections within or outside of this object. I chose an umbrella but my project strayed far from my original conception. Just to give you an idea of proportion the box was roughly 2′x2′x2′.

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