Diallo_Plaster BasketBalls

For the plaster project i decided to cast a basketball, i chose to use a "Spalding" basketball because it is the most common brand for basketballs and also they history of making basketballs. Ironically they happen to have "NEVER FLAT" on them as it is a slogan used by the company. It visually and helped my project a lot given the fact that they are casted out of plaster and you cannot bounce them. i also used a hoop and a piece of wooden floor trying to emulate a basket ball court. I am very satisfied with the end result.

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Going off of the same idea with the cup, and keeping it as minimal as possible i used a mask that i had found for this piece. I used markers of different colors to highlight the lines that were on the mask and hung it onto the wall. i like the white on white wall effect and think the colors accentuate that here.

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Again trying to work with found objects but keeping it as minimal as possible, i used a white cup that i filled with some water and hanged onto the wall slightly tilted in order to get some shadow. The pictures show both a frontal view and aerial view of the piece.

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i went to Perkins the other day to eat and when i asked for a box for my food, i got a black box which  surprised me as i had never seen one before and was used to the white ones.

it was very interesting to see a black food box, so i decided to use it for this project by tearing it apart and hang it onto the wall leaving the negative space in between the two parts. 

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For this piece i used a piece of foil that i crumbled and then spray painted the center of it with metallic gold. Again trying to work with found objects but keeping it as minimal as possible.

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For this piece i decided to work with a target plastic bag i had found. i just cut a piece out of it and stretched it a little before putting it on the wall using pins. i painted the tips of the pins green to make it visually more interesting.

Emily Wendlandt - Plaster Gnomes

kitsch

kiCH

noun

1. 1.

   art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.

    My goal for these sculptures was to take an item that's widely considered kitschy in a negative way, and attempt to spin the object as widely sentimental to the viewers.  For me personally, when I think of gnomes, I think of the overly decorated house and yard out in the country and the embodiment of the thrift store experience, but not in a good way.  To spin sentimentality on these gnomes I put a lot of obvious labor into painting them.  I think that the hand painted details convey this, but I also find it ironic that there is so much artistry in such a useless item, that unless displayed in a vulgar manner is never really seen, which is why they are placed at eye level in a commonly used space.  I also find irony in the fact that these items are typically supposed to be displayed outdoors, but because they are made of plaster, they would not last out in the elements, adding to the useless element of the original object; yet here they are ornately decorated.  Looking back now I think I chose the wrong means to display these items.  They ruffled scenery does not make the items appear to be special or loved at all.  Perhaps an ornate table or even a pedestal would have been a better choice to convey the object as lovingly useless.         

weekly sculpture 7 martin

Still trying to use found obects. Broken door stopper, cigarette butt, wood splinters. I wanted to fix the stopper to a wall again but to display a cigarette butt. Now while this one feels slightly cliche' to me because I used a butt again, I still find it visually appealing. It juts out of the wall very oddly and I was surprising pleased with this piece.

weekly scuplture 6 martin

I found a broken piece of an old table outside the kiehle building and brought it inside. I saw a lot of students in the 3d class working on bauhaus sculptures and kind of wanted to try doing so with the tuttle approach. I used found woodscraps and the table leg along with nails to get it to stand on it's own comfortably. The tilt of the object is most appealing to me, It would not stand on it's own at first and took a lot of sanding and glue to make it stable. It is constantly leaning but stands steadily.

weekly sculpture 5 martin

For this piece I wanted to make something functional that would also be visually appealing to me. I cut the wood in a crescent shape and put nails along the side. I simply find the angle and movement of this object interesting. But I plan on hanging it over my sink and having my keys dangle from it. I am still trying to go about making things with found objects as though tuttle had. I had these nails and wood at home from scrap canvases I made and I noticed the wood was in an appealing crescent shape.

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sculpture weekly 4 martin

For the weekly sculptures I have tried to keep in mind the work of tuttle. I want to make some more sculptures that have materials that I myself connect with. I gathered a bunch of cigarette butts I had lying around and lined them up on the end of a piece of wood. I found all of these in my car and the cloth I attached to the wood resembles the interior of my car. I wanted the cigarette butts to slightly stick out from the cloth as they had in my car, somewhat hidden but still there.