Assemblage Sculpture

Floatsome

plastic bottles melted with heat gun

Artist's Statement:

the idea was to create an assemblage sculpture out of found materials.I used a heating tool to melt plastic bottles into a jellyfish.
I used the heat tool to create bubbles in the plastic, creating white patches. 
The initial idea I had was to cut up bottles and plastic bags and other plastic things to create a jellyfish. then my dad told me it might be a good idea to melt the plastic instead of cutting it, and after some experimentation, I decided that the melting created a really cool, eerie effect that I knew I wanted to use. The heat effectively bent the bottle up in winding shapes, which I thought was very characteristic of jellyfish.