Wire Sculpture

The main idea that guided me to creating a piece like this was to do a sculpture that was not ordinary. My brother did a shoe when he did a wire a sculpture, instead I wanted to take it a step further and do something that is not ordinary and not easy. I looked around my house to find something until I thought of doing a PS4 controller. I decided to do a PS4 controller because it was not something that anyone has really thought of making out of wire. I also have been playing the PS4 recently and I just thought of taking inspiration off of playing the PS4 for the first time in a while.

The materials that I used to create this project were: Wire cutters, needle nose pliers and different wire widths.

The process to create this project started me with thinking of my idea that I wanted to do. To begin I had many ideas like a dog, shoe, gloves and a computer. Then I finally came up with my idea. I first started tracing the controller and outlining it so it would be easy to assemble it. Next I experimented with how to cut wire and make fish hook attachments. After that I was ready to make my wire sculpture. I first had to pull wire together to wrap it around the controller and then I got my first layer and I had to make the second layer evenly match up with the first. It was hard at first but once I got going at it, it was fun. I realized from making this sculpture that I really like working with my hands a lot and that is of no surprise to me considering I get fidgety a lot with my hands during class and since I use my hands to build legos.