To understand how a line can be used to create a three-dimensional form;
To use reed to create a sculpture that considers space, balance, repetition, variety, and emphasis;
To learn about sculpture artists and where they find their inspiration.
Artists Studied
Ruth Asawa, Mark di Suvero, Mia Pearlman, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Sarah Sockbeson, Stephan White
Brainstorming
Process
When I was envisioning my piece, I was thinking about my first attempt at my reed and making a more complex version of it. So firstly, I took my reed that was wet and started doing what I envisioned. I took the reed and started making multiple loops and loops until there was enough reed to close the end left. After that, I left it for around a day and let it dry. After drying, I took some tacky glue, took off the top, and started gluing all around my reed. Gluing loose parts on my sculpture, hiding the ends under the visible parts, and then letting it sit for around 5 minutes. Once that was done, I took my paper and chose a lilac purple one, cut out a triangular shape that was almost exactly like the one on my sculpture then glued it under my reed. Once the paper stayed I took some thread and then looped it around my piece of work. Took it and tied it around 4 times to make it stay. Finally, I had Ms. Sylvester take a photo of my work.
2. In my sculpture, you can see variety with all the different loops and how I did a crossover on one of them showing how I did more than required for the dimensions. With emphasis, my purple paper that was glued behind was the emphasis as that is what you could consider different in this art piece. I have used to purple paper to make it stand out compared to the rest of the sculpture as the entire thing is reed until you get to fully see it completed with the purple triangle.
3. I have learned that sculptures can practically be anything as long as it's crafted by you in some way shape or form. In the same way, our paper sculptures were crafted or redone by us, the same thing was done with the reed. We personally took the reed ourselves and made it look to our desires and requirements. Sculptures can be big or small, wide or thin as long as there's something going on in the sculpture, for the paper sculptures, we had a variety of crunchy paper, curly paper, and even wavy paper. Whereas for the reed sculpture, we made all kinds of different kinds of lines and curves and loops on our reeds. Some people had pointy reed designs, some peoples smooth, and some even wavy/bendy.