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Assessment Set Up

This is the final look for the assessment, except the hand is on the ground. I will put that in place the day of assessements. i am pretty happy with the results. Maybe should’ve moved the photos pinned onto canvas a pieces further right, but ah well I guess.

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I just really love these photos so they get their own post.

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This shoot was what I would hope bring the piece together. I am very happy with the results. The blue background is the equal to a chef’s kiss.

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Prep details:

The foot ware for the photoshoot is plaster blocks I found in the skips. I drilled holes to create a controlled crack so I could stack the pieces. That was Ozzy’s idea, so shout out to Ozzy. It worked really well.

I swapped out rope for wire (that is left over from the radius project), to secure the shoulder blocks more firmly.

Once I decided to swap out the trash in one of the plastic forms, I had holes to fill. Instead of hand sewing it together with a light thread, I decided to use wire to add more interest t o the piece.

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Quick snapshot of how it was looking, and other potential places the hand could sit.

I am also realizing I don’t like the trash in the plastic. I makes it look all very light, which is the opposite of that I would like.

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Using plastic I found in the skip, I wanted to recreate something similar to Sarah Lukas with repurposed material. That heaviness, dragging down effect fits into my concept for the piece. Using a machine, I sewed tear shaped panels of the plastic together, creating two separate forms. I filled one up with rags and the other with trash I’ve been collecting over the weeks. I originally was going to use the trash to stuff the hand, but I had not gathered nearly enough as it can be squashed down easily.

After being rather unsuccessful in making a canvas collar for the shoulder blocks, I found a wooden coil with chicken wire wrapped around that I had actually made last semester. It wasn’t strong enough for that project piece, but would work well for what I was trying to do now. I am pleased to find something that i could reuse. I sewed the cushions down the middle so they could sit either side of the chicken wire, then hot glued the pieces together.

I had tried out stuffing the fingers solely with the sponge Sarah brought in, but it didn’t feel sighted enough. I decided to take that out and fill each finger tip with sand to weigh it down.

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These are the couch cushion shoulder blocks stuffed. I think I am going to take some stuffing out and sew through the Centre to create a crease so it will lay on the shoulder.

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Monday’s activity. Using pieces of the piece to create more art. I tried to remain playful and curious here. What was made was all a bit silly, but it was a good way to start back after the break.

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Practice run of face-paints that I’d like to incorporate into a shoot with the sculpture I’ve created. I like this look but it isn’t a full representation of what it is im after. I think a smile with darker eyes fits more with what I am after. I also have made this collar from plastics found in the bin.

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I was trying to make a a canvas collar/back piece to connect the blocks, as well as signify some weight. This was proving too difficult. I already feel I have wasted much time making the hand, I didn’t wat to do the same thing again.

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Considering the fingers look so plain, I wanted to add more detail in the palm of the hand. Using the shapes of the patterns to mimic creases in the hand.

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Artists Research: Sarah Lucas

Lucas’ work is striking. The elongated humanlike form, the many many titties, the positioning she put them in , everything about them is striking. There is a softness to the characters created, a welcoming confidence.

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Artist Research: David Shrigley

Shrigley’s work resonates with me. The combination of silliness with deep meaning is often work that stands out most to me. There is the contradiction of brightly coloured animals mixed with texts that often refer to the lows of life.

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Artist Research : Ernesto Neto

“Since the mid-1990s, Ernesto Neto has produced an influential body of work that explores constructions of social space and the natural world by inviting physical interaction and sensory experience. Drawing from Biomorphism and minimalist sculpture, along with Neo-concretism and other Brazilian vanguard movements of the 1960s & 70s, the artist both references and incorporates organic shapes and materials – spices, sand and shells among them—that engage all five senses, producing a new type of sensory perception that renegotiates boundaries between artwork and viewer, the organic and manmade, the natural, spiritual and social worlds.”

Taken from www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

I like the globular features of Neto’s work. The weight pulling down large alien looking forms from the ceiling interests me. I feel the weight in my body when I look at the pictures.

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Playing around wit this mass of canvas.

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Cutting out the pattern for the thumb. This I am doing more by eye than by measurement. I am not used to doing things that way but trying to measure correctly would complicate and draw out the time needed to make it.

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Snapshot of the hand coming together. It can look like many things and can take many forms. The fingers are fun to play around with. I don’t know why it looks like it’s glowing in a lot of the pictures.