The first of four steps was getting the wet reed from the water bin, then shaping the reed 3 separate times. The first two are practice sculptures and the last is a final that we then paper clip in order to save the shape. Each sculpture had to have at least four loops. Then the last step: waiting for the reed to dry before gluing the reed together so that we can have a clean-looking final piece with emphasis. In my head I was thinking "How in the world is this going to turn into something pleasing to the eye?" but as I continued my two practice pieces and on to my final one, I began to understand how the reed moved and how I could move the reed, this helped me to create the base for my final piece.

The variety and emphasis are in two different places on my sculpture, the top, and bottom. I used smaller pieces of reed to show a place with a lot of positive space. my piece feels very open and stretched out, but still has a large enough piece of evidence

Art can take many forms and is very hard to replicate. I learned this when creating the three sculptures, every time something new came out, and when I tried to recreate a certain element of the previous sculpture, I couldn't. I would only get a distrought and out of proportion piece. In learning this I then decided to let the piece flow in whatever direction it wanted with me just being a guiding hand to help it follow the guidelines. That is what I learned from this project.