Week 1
When approaching my first weekly sculpture, being inspired by Richard Tuttle, I began with nothing clear cut in my mind. I favor Tuttles sculptures that use chicken wire and many little found things, so I gathered items as such and, as Tuttle would say, just started making something for the sake of making something. I played with the chicken wire and hooked it on a singe nail, painted yellow, on the wall. Then I began to arrange the other materials in a way I would arrange flowers--very light hearted yet particular, stepping back and judging each move. I didn't want to hide the attachments. Clothespins holding the chicken wire together, a safety pin painted pink holding the cardboard up. I painted two twigs pastel colors in direct correspondence to one of Tuttles pieces. I also added some materials of my own such as stuffing and a paper plate. The composition became asymmetrical. Toward the end I began to relate the piece to summertime, and even as being inspired by the work of Tuttle it became my own.
Week 2
My second sculpture works as a simplified continuation of my first sculpture. The same twisted chicken wire is used to in-capsule and entangle found objects. The objects are all traditionally used for domestic work. A measuring tape, spools, stuffing, and a needle and thread are meant to act as themes of delicacy and femininity to offset the ruggedness and masculinity of the chicken wire that encases them.
Week 3
This week I wanted to do something a little more simple than my last two sketches. I limited myself to scraps of wire I found around our classroom, yarn, and a nail. I crochet a twist with the pink yarn. I wanted to continue the weightless-feeling of the yarn into the wire. My goal was to make an effortless-looking work with repeated imagery of a twist brought through the materials and the shadows created by the materials.
Week 4
This piece I was working on while also working on plaster castings. I found the sharp remnants of the plaster when cracked out of the bucket to be strangely alluring and wanted to keep them. I then decided it would be interesting to have them stuck in some roughly poured plaster to contrast the sharpness with crude smoothness. I obtained a block of wood and a branch painted pink that I had used in a previous sculpture. I wanted to use the branch as a sort of stand for the piece, so I poured the plaster directly on the branch and block to bind them together.
Week 5
For this sculpture I was inspired once again by a work of Tuttle's. When researching for the first sculpture I saw a brown paper towel wrapped in wire and I can't seem to get that idea out of my head. So I grabbed a paper towel, some wire, and without thinking some stuffing. The three forms I made have a wispy ghost like feel to them, and float at different lengths from the wall, being held up by their wires which are pushed into three found holes in the wall.
Week 6
This weeks sculpture I played with a different scale. The finished product was about 1 1/2 inches tall. As I was cleaning up some wax I found the texture fun to mold so I took some and, on top of a shard of leftover plaster, started making a twisting tower. I wanted to see how tall and twisted I could make it--apparently that wan't that tall. But the twisting softness of the wax contrasts well with the shards of plaster and even small I found it quite interesting.
Week 7
This week I decided to use a frame that I had constructed for another class. I took a wet paper towel I had been using for water colors and dried it on a piece of jute attached to two clothes pins which I lodged into the frame. I placed it on a specific wall in my studio room, tying in the brown jute with the brown wood flooring and the white of the frame with an outlet on the wall and the trim at the bottom of the wall. I payed specific attention to the shadows the frame and objects created within the frame and how the shadow of the paper towel became centered within the frame with the right lighting.
Week 8
This week I had left over plaster in the bottom of a bucket when working on the casting project. I had a few broken castings so I decided to play around with arrangements of the broken pieces in the plaster. I thought it gave a cool urban feel; it could possibly communicate the idea of the casting out of imperfections in our consumerist society. I decided to place them on the concrete floor with colored marks on the ground and a brick background to emphasize the urban take on the piece.
Week 9
This was the week we were working on the vitrine boxes. I decided to keep a few leftover pieces to make a weekly sculpture with, Here I wanted to play with fragility. I took a piece of Plexiglas and lodged it into the cut of a wood chunk, trusting that it would hold itself. I then balanced the piece on a nail in the wall. A move to the left or right will make the piece fall.
Week 10
This is a sculpture I had been planning to do for a while. I was hoarding little pieces from projects to make a crude mobile shape. The whole thing is a balancing act between found objects loosely hanging onto the wire.
Week 11
This week I wanted to do something that involved suspension and leftover thread that I had. I took and embroidery hoop and dislocated the two circles. I then wove each thread randomly between the hoops. I thought of the process a lot like making a spider web or a dream catcher. I decided to thread two pom-poms onto some threads to push the look further.
Week 12
This final weekly sculpture I made I wanted to return to some of the materials I had used near the beginning of the semester and also arrange them in a similar manner. A toilet paper roll, stuffing, pink yarn, and black embroidery thread all come together to create a dreamlike wisp of a sculpture, with emphasis on the shadow it creates.
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