Drawing in Space

PROJECT PURPOSE

To understand how a line can be used to create a three-dimensional form

To create a sculpture that considers balance and 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

REFLECTION

First of all, we started making different combinations of reed and how they fit together. I had chosen the longer piece of reed and found it a bit difficult with the sheer amount of reed that I had to fit together, but I found that the material was very pliable and fun to create shapes with. We created 3 different sculptures, paper clipping the spots where they connected and taking pictures once we were done of each of the 3 different sculptures. Once we were happy with one of the three sculptures, we set the sculpture aside to dry. The next class, once the reed had dried, we took off the paper clips and glued the places where the reed touched. We then set that aside to dry once again. It was a bit difficult to glue the pieces as in some of the places on mine, it was very tight space and it was hard to be precise. Next class, once the glue had dried, we took off the paper clips and started deciding where we wanted to put the paper/area of emphasis. Once we had decided, we traced the area with pencil and cut out the paper. After we had cut the piece of paper, we lined it up with where we wanted the area of emphasis to be and we cut off any access paper that we didn’t need there. We then used glue to glue down the piece of paper onto the area of emphasis. This was a bit difficult for me since I decided to put one of my areas of emphasis in the middle of my sculpture. Because of this, it was not only difficult to get the right size of paper, but also to glue it down because it was circular and not flat. However, I really like how this turned out. Lastly, we tied a piece of string onto the sculpture where we wanted it to hang, and took pictures of it against a backdrop. I see variety in the size of loops and kind of loops involved in my structure. I created a ton of small loops as well as big loops. There is a good balance between the two and how they are spread out. I created two areas of emphasis. One in the very middle of my sculpture, a small circular area with purple rice paper, and the other on the outside of my sculpture also with purple rice paper. This is a bigger area of emphasis. While doing this project, I have learned just how difficult, but also fun it is to make sculptures. They can come in many different forms with many different materials and shapes. It takes a lot of time and is an artistic process to find what you feel is the right sculpture. To create these kind of sculptures, you need to learn to care about and be mindful of positive and negative space and how everything is balanced.