3d to 2d

Body Wrap

For my sculpture utilizing the human form, I chose to base it on the poem "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson.

• Because I could not stop for Death
• He kindly stopped for me
• The Carriage held but just Ourselves
• And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste
• And I had put away
• My labor and my leisure too,
• For His Civility We passed the School, where Children strove
• At Recess – in the Ring – 
• We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain – 
• We passed the Setting Sun – Or rather – He passed us –
• The Dews drew quivering and chill –
• For only Gossamer, my Gown –
• My Tippet – only Tulle – We paused before a House that seemed
• A Swelling of the Ground –
• The Roof was scarcely visible –
• The Cornice – in the Ground – Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet
• Feels shorter than the Day
• I first surmised the Horses’ Heads 
• Were toward Eternity –

I became inspired by the acceptance of death and the idea of a welcoming figure instead of a looming evil presence, Through the sculpture I intended to make a kindly personification of death. To portray this I set upon making a dapper figure, giving him a vest, a button up shirt, and slacks. Rather than a cowl or veil, I opted for a cow skull with an omega carved onto his forehead, symbolizing the last link of the poem. The colors within the garment are muted, except the flowers. The poppy flowers are significant as they symbolize eternal rest.

Paper Stacking: Art Nouveau

In this paper stacking assignment I chose to base this sculpture around something I love: art nouveau. The beautiful style of art nouveau is lovely in its fluid and organic motion and its repeating patterns and structures. To recreate the stylized prints of artists such as Alphonse Mucha in a three dimensional style, I attempted to recreate my own take on a mucha poster through a shadow box. By stacking paper, the transitions between the varying layer heights within the work helped to create a sense of depth within a relatively flat space. This stayed true to the flat surfaces and focus of line work within art nouveau and created emphasis to different pieces of the work.

Paper Stacking: Inspiration

Paper Stacking: Fruit

In this sculpture I sought to replicate a lemon in paper. Referencing a real lemon, I attempted to duplicate its shape and structure by cutting out shapes in the paper. I then stacked the pieces to resemble the lemon, gluing them in place with wood glue. I finished the piece by sanding it down to make the layers uniform but still visible resulting in the final piece below.

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.

Soap Carvings

For this project I was assigned to carve two soap carvings of a small animal figurine. For my figurine, I chose this tiny sheep with three eyes. The first carving is the white, while the second carving is the blue. Out of the two of them, the first carving turned out to be the more proportional one

Hakuna Matata