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I decided to use my dad as the subject for my one minute sculptures as I wanted to be able to direct the making of the sculpture. I tried to focus on how the body can morph objects and vice versa. For example in figure 8, I placed the two chairs facing each other preventing my subject from sitting on them regularly. This required him to figure out a new way to sit on them. I was also interested in the relationship between the body and the object and how they depend on each other. In many of my one minute sculptures, if I were to take either the object or my dad away the sculpture wouldn’t be supported and would consequently collapse eg. the ladder in figure 3. I deliberately chose to place my sculpture in the living room amongst other furniture in figure 7, to associate the sculpture with furniture.
I found this brief difficult as it is not something I would choose to do in my own art making practice, but it was interesting to see how objects can be used in ways we would never think of otherwise.
I really love how you created these sculptures and captured them in the setting where the objects are usually used! I like how the background of these images gives context and relates to the sculptures. I think it was a good idea for you to use your dad for these so you had full control over the framing of these images too! good job :))
Your Dads a natural! Nice work and well done for pushing yourself outside your comfort zone – try to remain open over the next few days and see where it takes you!