Objective:

• Learn about sculptors who work to define space

• Work with clay to create a non-representational sculptural form that utilizes positive and negative space to make it interesting from all sides.

Reflection:

I would recommend a couple of things for future students to consider if they make this sculpture. To start, try to keep all areas of your piece as thick as possible, and start with only one or two piercings in the clay before trying to overcomplicate things. Start simple and make sure your sculpture is structurally sound and won’t break before adding more protrusions and negative spaces. Additionally, I would recommend avoiding having long nails if possible while working on this project because you WILL nick the clay with your fingernails, and it will be a pain to remove.

Something I have done to my sculpture that encourages interaction is to create multiple piercings that connect to one another, as well as rounding any corners in my piece so to make them flow into each other. Additionally, I have piercings on opposite sides of my piece, so if you wanted to properly see all of them, you would have to pick it up or turn it.

For both my Push-Pull sculpture and my Alabaster sculpture, I had to think about the positive and negative spaces that would be created by manipulating the medium I was given, specifically seeing how protrusions would affect the shadows cast on my sculpture and how to consider that from different angles. One major difference between these two processes is the type of sculpture being practiced. The Push-Pull sculpture was manipulative sculpture, where I created my finished work without adding or removing any material, while the alabaster was strictly subtractive sculpture, in which I only removed material to reveal the final form.