Sustained Investigation 2

Title: The Four Freaky Friends

For this project, we were tasked with continuing our idea for our sustained investigations. This project isn't quite like my first sustained investigation purpose, but I tried to make it close enough by continuing to show my art through the lens of being neurodiverse. Since eye contact is tough for me and many other people who have similar issues to what I have, I thought I'd do a project where no one would look at each other. The tricky part of this project, I have to say, was making sure the heads were the right size and had the right features added to them. This was time-consuming as I had issues with making the facial features of the heads because I had to pinch super hard on the clay, which wore my hands out. I was initially going to make four heads rotate, but the issue was that the gears would break due to the added force, so I instead went with three rotating heads with the fourth one not rotating. But once I got it to work, the heads moved nicely, and I was delighted by the results. 

The materials I used were clay, legos, tin foil, and needle tools. I started by using Legos to create the base and the mechanics for where I could put the clay heads to rotate around. 

I first started off by building the structure where the clay heads would rotate. I added Lego gears to make the heads spin and their own platform for where they would be sitting. This took a while as I had to fix the issues, which was very annoying. But once I had that done and perfected, I was onto making the clay heads. For the heads, I started by clumping together sheets of tinfoil so I could give them that head shape. Then, I rolled out a bunch and attached a bunch of clay together to cover the tin foil to make it look like a real head. After that, I slipped and scored the eyes and hair on, and then I was done. This was definitely a hard project to do, and I could not be prouder of how it turned out.