Sculpture No. 2

This sculpture was introduced as a relief sculpture of a person, place, or thing, that had significance to us. However, the option was introduced to do a 3D representation of one of those options. The first thought when you look at my sculpture is probably not that it looks like anything that could be a person or a place or a thing. I started my sculpture by modelling it off of a picture of my friend, Alyssa. This sculpture is somewhat a tribute of what I think she looks like on the inside, and as a complement to the kind of humor and somewhat chaotic way she lives life, that is the process I took with creating it. At its start, the piece was a wire and foil skeleton that replicated the pose she was in in the photo I was working off of (which was a picture of her playing Minecraft in McDonalds at like 9 PM). Then, I began to add sculpey to the outside of it, and didn't feel like replicating her clothes or her face. So, I began adding bright, very contrasted colors. I made the face unsettling and exaggerated. When I was done with the creature that it had become, I told her that I had done a sculpture of her. She responded to the photo I sent with a laugh and said, "Wow, it looks how I feel." After that, I took the opportunity to disassemble some electronics that had been donated to the art closet by the tech department. My friend goes to Baxter, and I always find it impressive that she knows how to use CAD (a computer design software) and understands engineering, so I at least had a reason for indulging myself in the fun of pulling apart computer bits. I used the circuit boards to make a rectangular frame for the form, and gave it a little "iPad" out of a flip-phone display screen.

Although I do love how honest my representation of her and how much she inspires me, this sculpture is not pretty to look at. The composition of the colors on the forms hurts my eyes, and the strange box I put her in is only redeemed by how cool circuit boards look. If I were to do this a second time, I would start with the same process, but make her look like she does in the picture, with the same circuit board box for her to sit in.