I am most proud of my Paying Attention Through Sculpture project because I worked with clay, which I wasn’t super familiar with, and did more illustrative work on the outside. I liked how I spaced everything out and communicated information clearly. This impacted my learning because it was using a new medium and had to draw on a 3D surface, and understanding glaze and how different depths and scratching techniques translate to a final image. 

One of the most informative projects for me was the reed sculpture, which is a really simple and unassuming medium at face value. I enjoyed learning how to work with that material, and the different processes required to get a finished product, as well as thinking about how the work would fit into the space. It showed how a super simple material can be used to create really compelling shapes to fill an area. 

I met my hopes and goals for this semester well, and the only part where I drifted was organization and time management, which I should work on. I wanted to work with both stone and plaster, which I did both of in my Alabaster carving project, and my memento project, where we made plaster molds of our hands and arms.