Wire Sculpture

This project was our one and only sculpture project, and of course it had to be with wire. The goal of the project was to duplicate an object, about the size of a head, using varying sizes of wire. This project used the elements line and patience. I had a limited supply of the latter.

I chose to make a ceramic head for my project, not because I wanted to, but because I didn't bring anything to class but I refused to sit around doing nothing for a whole period. I used the fish hook connection technique we learned while making a wire cube, and I bent the wire along the sculpture to match the shapes and contours of the face. This was an overall functioning strategy, however I often times had trouble holding up the wires, so I had to use tape. Once I was done with the sort of "skeleton" of the reproduction, I decided that it could use some decoration. I used very thin wire to fill in various chunks of space to make the project more visually appealing.

This project, while I more or less like the end result, was exhausting. I hardly ever work in 3-D, and the amount of times I stabbed myself was almost not worth the production. Not to mention how tedious it is to try to make a face out of wire. My biggest struggle was for sure the ears. Ears are complicated enough to draw, let alone make out of wire. They ended up looking wonky, and there wasn't really a good way to connect them to the rest of the head. Nonetheless, I stuck with this time consuming project and came in for more than a week's worth of advisories and the end result is very satisfying. It was probably good for me to do work in an area that I don't spend much time in, and I enjoy challenges when it comes to art.