Soap Carving Changes

In this project, I was assigned to take one of the sheep I had carved, and sacrifice it by making 4 additive changes and 4 subtractive changes. These changes would culminate into a form vastly different from the sudsy sheep I had began with.

You cannot grasp the true final form of the sheep!

Change 1: Box Cutter.

For this change, I sliced off the legs of my dear rejected sheep, and slit off the head from its damaged torso and body. I then reopened a wound in its torso and removed the metal that had been keeping the body whole.

Change 2: Sandpaper

In this stage I sanded down all the rough edges of feet and the bottom of the head. The upper and lower of its body I sanded to be more rounded rectangular forms and removed some of the fur detail carved into the former sheep.

Change 3: Hammer

With a few hardy blows I smashed the head and feet into shattered fragments of its former self until they became unrecognizable in what they previously had been. The soapy meat lumps remained unharmed among the carnage.

Change 4: Screwdriver

Into the remaining parts  I began to drill many holes along the surface of each block. Each entry point varied and many overlapped one another.

Change 5: Skewer

Utilizing the holes I had just drilled, I stacked the two pieces of blue cheese on top of each other on the skewer, before securing it on the stick with hot glue.

Change 6: Tea Bags

Emptying out the contents of two cherry flavoured tea bags into a plastic baggie, I proceeded to fill up the bags with the smashed remains of the head and feet. These were also sealed with hot glue at the top.

Change 7: Balsa Wood

To support itself and stand upright, I began constructing a two layer base made of two slabs of balsa wood with a hole drilled in the middle. The skewer was placed in the center of the balsa wood and sealed with hot glue.

Change 8: Red Paint

The tea bags and the meat were recolored red on their exteriors, leaving only the blue showing inside the former torso. The tea bags look like bloody garbage bags in this stage.

Change 9: Gold Paint

The base of the structure and the skewer support are painted gold at this point.

Change 10: Headphone Chord

Here I took a broken pair of headphones and cut a portion of the wire. I then tied the ends around the two teabags, and tied the center around the skewer. Making a notch of hot glue in the middle of the skewer, I ensured the bags would not slip down on the structure, then painted the chord gold.