Wire Cube and Wire Sculpture

Wine or Smoothie Glass

S. Alterio

06/02/19

The setting of my project is a wine shaped glass, but it also reminds me of a smoothie glass. I used wire, and to shape the wire I used a pair of needle nose pliers. I thought remaking the shape of the glass would be challenging and interesting. I always like to do challenging things for art projects so that's pretty much why I chose that.

I used the fish hook technique when connecting corners to another corner using the wire, you can see I used the fish hooks pretty much everywhere when connecting. I changed how the glass comes straight up, instead I tried to bind the wires together to kind of make it more intertwined rather than straight to help it kind of have a more interesting shape.

I found the glass in a prop bucket that Mrs. Medsker told me to look through and that was what I first found and I thought it would be the most challenging compared to a glass bottle. I always used to see the little smoothie glasses around and they always caught my eye, I guess that never really changed then. If I could change anything about my sculpture I would change the size of the circle on top, I didn't have enough wire, that's why it's a bit smaller.