3D and Sculpture I Art Blog

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Paper City

Sculpture #1 In process pictures

Sculpture #1 Final pictures

Sculpture #2 In process Pictures

Sculpture#2 Final Picture

Artist Statement - Using only paper and adhesives (as long they were not visible) I created two sculptures with one visible moving mechanism on each sculpture. The first one I chose to create an elevator with a cut out design for the exterior. The second sculpture I chose a cylinder shape which rotates. These sculptures were created using folding methods with little glue to hold them in place.

Masking Tape Shoe

In Process Pictures

Final Picture

Artist Statement -

Using masking tape to create a 3 Diminutional shoe, designed to scale and in proportion to the original shoe size.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Susan Steward

1) "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."

2) "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."

I think this is true in many ways, we cary experiences and memories in objects whether they are supposed to serve that purpose or not. Objects hold a lot of sentiments no matter what they are. I like to keep perfume bottles from people in my family or my own, because they remind me of a time when I wore that particular perfume, or they remind me of a person. The bottle is significant because it reminds me of my experiences and memories.

3) "The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."

4) "Nostalgia cannot be obtained without loss."

As I child I moved from place to place brining memories from different cultures, growing up with, and meeting people from different cultures. I loved this experience it brought me great memories and important experiences but it also comes with loss because each time I moved, I lost something as well as gained something.

5) "To have a souvenir of the exotic is to posses a specimen and a trophy."

We hold on to souvenirs tightly because they remind us of a place that is new, and exciting to us, we carry it as a trophy to remind ourselves that we visited somewhere special.