Weekly Sculpture 1                                                                                          John Bartell

            It’s been awhle since I’ve taken 3-D art with Keisuke (three years, I believe), so I’m sort of rusty with using the workshop.  I was actually sort of nervous using the tools again – so I didn’t.  So I suppose that was part the emulation of the minimalist spirit of Tuttle’s work…

            The idea came to me when I remembered that I had several pop cans in my car I hadn’t yet disposed of this past weekend, so I decided to intergrate those into the media (I’ll admit it – I’ve used trash in a lot of my pieces).  However, when I actually had the material in front of me, I wasn’t sure how to move forward with the project.  I experimented with the aluminum (you may have noticed it when I started ripping the cans apart) and made my canvas out of some cardboard and a wooden square.

            I came in this past Sunday (January 18, 2015) to put in some more work on the piece.  I intended to use the acrylic, as it dried, to act as a glue for when it dried, and settled on the shape I wanted my creation.  A flower.  That did not go well, and I suppose it looks like diseased banana peels.

            Hopefully my works will look better in days to come.