Soap Carving

ARTIST STATEMENT:
When assigned this project I was on a time crunch and thought It was possible to carve two pigs out of soap along with having lots of detail! I thought this was possible because in the fourth grade I carved a “boat” out of soap, but the boat was really just soap hollowed out. This project I have to say was the most time consuming, patience testing project yet. There came times where I wanted to throw my soap across the room and forfeit the on going struggle of soap carving. After my project ended I had blisters on my fingers from the carving tools and I had to need to be dirty from that point on because of my want to never see soap again!! 


IN PROCESS PICTURES:

SOAP CARVING DISTRUCTION:

Step One: Washed my hand with the soap

Step Two: Dropped it off the second floor

Step Three: Threw it

Step Four: Stepped on it

Step Five: Light it on Fire

Step Six: Put it in the Microwave

Step Seven: Smushed it

Step Eight: Twisted it

Step Nine and Ten: Pinned it, and tied it up.

PROFESSIONAL PHOTOS:

*final pig picture is excused*

Paper City

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I’m not the most talented artiest when it comes to 3D art, but when we were assigned this project I was ready to be creative. For some odd reason I knew how to fold paper easily into the shape of a box or a house. I’m not sure exactly what class it was in high school that taught me how to fold paper into boxes but I want to say that it was my Trigonometry class. Even though I knew how to make houses and boxes out of paper I wanted to challenge myself a little while doing these two pieces. Part of the assignment was to have something moving on both of our pieces.

For the first piece I made a circus tent. I made a circus tent because that would be something I have never done before and I would have to measure out every detail in order to get it perfect. For the roof of the tent I wanted it to not be attacked because I wanted it to be able to move around and be able to come off and on. The main moving part of this piece however was the flag in the top of the tent. The flag can spin as well as move up and down like flags do in real life.

For the second piece, I made a hanging top-heavy house. For this piece I wanted to have the top bigger than the bottom, I also wanted to experience with cuts and designs in the roof since these were both things I have never worked with before. My moving part of this piece is the house being able to spin while hanging on the wire. Overall I enjoyed this project because it was something I already knew how to do so I got to challenge and push myself to not take the easy way out.


IN PROCESS PICTURES:


First Piece:

Second Piece:

PROFESSIONAL PHOTOS:

            

Architecture Relief

ARTIST STATEMENT:

When assigned this project I was nervous because I have no idea about different architectural time periods. After research I choose modern and post modern. I displayed modern by making my main buildings and structures out of geometrical shapes. How I incorporated post modern into my piece was by the string design on the front of my sculpture and by the roofing/deck made out of balsa wood at the top of my piece. Overall I enjoyed this piece, because I actually spread out my workflow instead of waiting until the last minute.

RESEARCH IMAGES:
postmodern.

modern.

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