Ana

Art is important to me because when I am making art I have the creativity to express my thoughts through a physical object instead of just explaining them out loud to someone else. In my art project, I wanted to work on my sculpting skills, I have already been sculpting for 4 years now but, I usually don’t work on the extreme realism side. This was my first project doing a part of the human body which was a bit challenging for me in the beginning because unlike less realistic it’s ok if it’s not perfect but with realism, it has to be exact or it just feels off. I feel like I have achieved my goal of realism. I enjoyed trying this style and would do it again. 

No one entirely inspired me in particular I just knew that I wanted to make something out of clay that could have a meaning and I could try a new type of pottery. I want this piece to give the image of my own hands which in my piece I made from a mold then filed, painted, and touched up. I wanted my hands to be holding a “physical” form of my own heart so that I could represent how I hold myself back a lot. I used a lot of clay for this piece the entire heart is all clay and I did a lot of fixes to the hands using more clay. My favorite texture on this piece is the veins because they stick out and are shaded to look slightly blue. I also really like the shading that I did on the heart it was really hard and took me a while to figure it out. I hope that this piece invokes the idea of a cage that is slowly opening to reveal how I am trying to hold myself back less. I also want people to be intrigued by the realism of the piece.