Week 2: Sculpture After Atapō

Brain storming:

Before I developed any new sculptures, I brainstormed some of my spatial sketches and chose one out of the five to create. Out of all of my ideas, I decided to develop and create a sculpture from sketch 4.

Referencing artists

Joel S. Allen

While brainstorming, I looked at two artists to help develop my work. The first artist I looked at was Joel S. Allen. In his works he used wire to form vessels and different forms. I though it was cool how he used wire to create round or curved forms. The Wire Form (bottom left) is a sculpture I particularly like, specifically how the wire forms looks like tentacles reaching out of the main body of wire. This is something I would like to reference in my sculpture; manipulating the wire to look like a growing form.

• 

• 

Gregor Kregar

Kregar uses clear plastic or cardboard to create flat planes in his sculptures. Using flat planes is something that I want to try in my sculpture to bring in more of a visual language and concept of something bodily is growing. Although Kregar uses straight, lines in his works, I will not reference this in my work, but rather the flat planes to create my sculpture to look like it has ‘weight’.

• 

• 

Final Sculpture

This finished sculpture was developed from sketch 4. In sketch 4, I noted a way to improve the sketch was to use a material that could support itself. I decided to use wire that soft enough to bend and create organic curves as well as can support it’s weight. As well as this, I decided to keep in the centre wire, but rather have it just serve as a structure piece-like in my sketch. I twisted the wire to look like stream of liquid or substance was running down, ‘splashing’ onto the ground. By doing this, it’s part of the aesthetic of the sculpture rather than just the structure.

When I first completed the sculpture there was no clear plastic in between the individual ‘branches’. I thought it looked empty and that there needed to be a flat plane inside of the curves of the ‘branches’. Originally, I thought about placing in cardboard, but I didn’t like how the cardboard blocked from viewing the other branches. Therefore, I chose to use clear plastic as it would enable viewers to see through the individual ‘branch’ frames. And as an aesthetic value, the clear plastic mimicked the look of soap suds or a liquid. This influences the sculpture to look bodily, a substance or something organic. which I like.

I really enjoy the look of the sculpture. How the curves of the wire are asymmetrical, it looks like it’s growing- like coral. As well as how the clear plastic adds weight to the sculpture. In my next works, I would like to carry on with the visual language/ general shape, the curves and fluidity.