Project One/Twelve: Tuttle Inspiration
My name is Sou Thao. I was only looking for items, objects or materials that had texture because I saw that Tuttle's pieces still had some of their natural texture on them, even when painted. I used cardboard (I forgot the specific type), and wood. These wood pieces were already cut when I found them. The "mustache" was already painted black and I painted the "Eyes and Eyebrows". I turned the pieces into an angry face, but I forgot one important factor. They had to be abstract hence I ended up with an literal face.
Project Two/Twelve:Reach For The Stars
I wanted to do something more abstract but still convey what I wanted to express. I went to the back area and checked the "These Items Are Free To Use" shelf. I saw nothing usable but a whole box of paper tubes on the floor. Thinking that how can I turn these into something. As I perched my hand on my chin, it immediately gave me an idea. A hand sticking out of the wall like reaching to grab something. The materials are paper rolls that already had an end plugged in on one side. I didn't change the texture nor the color of the materials because I wanted them to be in their "natural" state.
Project Three/Twelve: Foot Print
I want to keep adding more body parts in the abstract form. I wanted to convey a foot print to indicate a foot of the human body using wire and nails. It was going to take more than what I had at the moment to make each individual toe, so I ended up making the "tabi" (Japanese two toe socks) form of a foot. I chose wire and nails because I have never done a wire sculpture in this form (wall sculpture) before and thought it would an amazing experience to do one.
Project Four/Twelve: Front Torso
This is another installment of the human body abstract. This particular one is supposed to represent the pectorals (the two chest muscles as a whole) and the abs (abdominal muscles) of the human body. The materials I used in this one are left over foams that I was using for another sculpture. I didn't not cut these into these shapes. They were like this when I broke them off.
Project Five/Twelve: Flexed Arm
This is the single flexing arm installment to the abstract body collection. I wanted to show an arm with some form of the muscles (biceps, triceps and forearm). These wooden pieces were already cut into these shapes when I picked them up from the discarded pile. I choose wood because wood was another element that I have never used as a wall sculpture and I wanted to explore that venture too. The materials are 2x4 wood.
Project Six/Twelve: Running Legs
I was starting run out human body parts that is "appropriate" to model. I, again, used wood as my material and these also came like this in the discarded pile. This one, I wanted to show motion while still abstracted. Running legs was the easiest to think of when it came to movement. The materials I used are a combination of plywood and 2x4 wood.
Project Seven/Twelve: Black Flower
I had all these broken pieces in front of me and thought "What can I do with these?" As I look more and more into the pieces, I began to see flower pedals in which turned into a full flower. An abstracted flower. The pieces themselves were already black and cut into these pieces. So I arranged them into a flower. The materials I used are a combination of plywood and 2x4 wood.
Project Eight/Twelve: Iron Lotus
I wanted to do something a little more abstract and more "crazy". I was looking at these chicken wire and thought "How am I going to turn this into something cool?" Then it came to me. A waterfall coming from the wall made of chicken wire. As I started to crumble them together, it started to look more like a flower. So I changed my idea from a waterfall to a flower. The materials in this one are chicken wire and metal wire.
Project Nine/Twelve: Pick the Wall
I was running out of materials to use but I found a guitar pick in my pocket and thought "what can I do with this?" It took me 20 minutes to thought of something and this is what I got. Drilled the pick into the wall.
Project Ten/Twelve: Iron Fly Swatter
This time I wanted to use a metal coat hanger and some really thin wire. I wanted to originally make a bird but I would loose to much of the coat hanger to complete it. The thin wire was not thick enough to be sturdy either. So I went with something more simpler. I didn't have any thing to cut it with so I ended up just winding the thin wire around the coat hanger.
Project Eleven/Twelve: Electric Shock
I wanted to keep using the thin wire and then I found some beads that I could use. I initially thought about making a dragon just using these. But I didn't have enough wire to complete the dragon. So I came up with this idea. An electric current. The wire represents the movement of the electricity and the beads represent the current themselves, if that makes sense.
Project Twelve/Twelve: Death of a Bottle
I found a lot of items everywhere and then I thought "wow, these would look cool... in a way". I used a candle stand (I think it was), thin wire, and a crunched bottle made out of plaster. I wanted to do something different then what I usually do. I usually do something happy or enlightenment-like work but this one I wanted to do something a little more dark.
Project Two: The Life Three Water Bottles
I wanted to make these plaster models of three different shapes of plastic water bottles. In the beginning I didn't know how I was going to approach this project, color wise. In the end, I ended up acrylic painting the plastered water bottles. I used mold, (that I made with the water bottles), and poured in the plaster and let it harden up. After that, I just simply painted them. It was really hard to paint them to make them look as close to "real" as possible. I cleaned the board (the stand) a little bit before I painted the models. Turns out that when the board dried up, it got lighter then what I had seen before. Hence the tone of the color. The models' colors were supposed to be a see through like a real water bottle but it was really hard to color them, to make them look believable that they are real ones.
Fangs of the Red Wolf
This one was focusing mainly on the construction of the box and how well the box was created to the item inside it. We didn't require to make/create an object to put it inside the box. But we had to create the box. I choose nunchaku because I love martial arts and this was the only thing that I could bring that wouldn't get in trouble for. I originally wanted to bring a combat knife called a Karambit. But I would get in trouble for that. So choose the nunchaku. Even though, it is a weapon but it is not as "dangerous" as a knife would be. If I had more time, I would have decorated this box to more like a box that someone would give to a King or an Emperor.
Final Project: Achilles
This one I wanted to do some carving. I chose foam as my materials because there was a lot of these and I have thought it would be easier to carve into, boy I was wrong. I wanted to make a replica of the Greek Warrior Achilles. Due to the lack of tools I couldn't make it as what I had sent out to do with it. The tools I had was just saws which didn't help much for details. Later towards the end of the project, I was able to obtain a razor which helped a lot. I originally wanted to carve Achilles holding a Gladius in one hand and a shield in the other hand. Also I wanted to paint it silver or bronze to give it that bronze sculpture or stone sculpture feel. I lacked in those materials as well.
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