Concentration Project

Artist Statement:

This is the first piece in my final concentration assessment. For this project, we were tasked with choosing a ‘theme’ and creating two pieces based around it. Bouncing back on a few ideas I finally came to settle on humanoid fishes. This idea had previously come to me when I’d be brainstorming for a different project here in 3D, but I had decided not to use it back then in favor of a different design I thought would better represent the task. Remembering my sketches of these little creatures when we were given this newest assignment, and how much I loved how they looked, I decided to revisit them for my final project. Creating my humanoid fish with polymer clay, wire, and a color piece of fabric for the shorts; I added in texture with a tool to exhibit scales. Though I think my final product of my first humanoid fish, this project still as (and will) a lot of room to evolve. In my original designs, the humanoid fishes were going to be about ten-inch high dolls with fish heads and 50’s inspired clothing. Getting into the project, I quickly realized I underestimated how much time it would take to create these dolls and the materials that I would need to use. Scrapping that design I decided to just use the goldfish that I’d already created and just add some human legs and swim trunks to it. Using the floral fabric that I was originally going to use for the 50’s dresses, I created the swim trunks after attaching the human legs to the goldfish. In the future, if I were to revise this first piece, I would probably add more textural elements. The clay and fabric blend in well together, but I’m thinking for the fins it would be cool to add some yellow or orange tissue paper to add to that textural piece.