Hands Sculpture

Artist Statement:

The story with this art piece was to create a sculpture out of our own hands. My idea was for the piece to have a deeper meaning than just the pretty flowers.

This art piece relates to my life because recently this year I've really gotten to know myself more. I really have been able to express myself through art and through my style. Over this past year, I made a few new friends who are now the best friends I've ever had. I've been able to make such strong connections with these people who have the same interests as I do and love being themselves. I really love and appreciate them. This piece represents how I've really bloomed out.

The process of this piece was creating a plaster mold of our hands. I sort of just put my hand in the bucket and just waited to see what would happen. Thankfully, I liked the position they were in and got an idea for it. When I first started painting the vines on it, I planned on just having some flowers stuck on it in random places, then I started cutting them up and putting stems of them in between the hands and glued them there to create the blossom look.