Reflection

For my first step, I grabbed the seven-foot-long strip of reed that had been soaking in the water so that I could work with it and bend it. Next, I grabbed my reed and began to bend it around into multiple loops and curves. I bent it around so no tails were sticking out.  Once I was done with my prototype I completed the same steps again but with different designs until I had a second rough draft. For my third step, I started to make my final draft. Before I did that I posted my first two rough drafts to my google sites. So I started my final draft by combining the things I liked from my first two and excluding the things I didn't like to make a good combination of the two. I then added my first point of emphasis and used paper clips to hold everything together. For my final step, I glued all the contact points together and added tissue paper to a couple of small triangles.

I see variety in my sculpture because I have many different shapes and different sizes of shapes in my sculpture. I have some pieces of reeds that are curved around and some big and small circles or ovals. To show emphasis I added a sort of latter-type structure in between a large triangle. I think the latter added a nice bit of emphasis on the sculpture and added something else for the eyes to look at. I also decided to add some light blue tissue paper in some smaller triangles to add a burst of color. It looks really nice when the light shines through the paper and it adds a nice bright color.

I learned that a sculpture does not have many boundaries. Sculptures use space to add some very interesting perspectives. Sculptures are kind of hard to describe because their beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Most sculptures really emphasize their negative space. I thought it was very interesting to see that sculpture uses other aspects of space such as light that a normal painting does not use. An example is that in the reed sculpture it was very beautiful when a ray of light would shine through the tissue paper and it would light up a lot and we could see the structure of the tissue paper and it really came to vibrant life showing off the beautiful bright colors.