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Project Goals:
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.
Stoneware Clay, 2.25 x 4.75 inches
Artists and Culture Studied:
Barbara Hepworth
Ruth Asawa
Henry Moore
Jean Arp
Mark di Suvero
Reflection:
I would recommend that students just let themselves go about forming the clay naturally and too not attempt to copy a certain pattern. It makes the entire process a lot easier and more original. I also recommend that they mold the clay slowly and not go too fast, as that helped me with properly forming the negative spaces and protuberances. What I would say too not do would be making the pierces big, as it thins out the clay surrounding the negative space and does not help with consistency in thickness of areas.
Something that is unique or interesting about my piece is, depending on the side you view it from, it is very different in both looks and feeling. On one side that shows more of the protuberances, it seems more loud and it pops. Yet, on a side that shows more of the enclosed negative spaces with the indents, it can be depicted as flowy and a softer/calmer piece. I believe this encourages the viewer to pick it up and look at all sides as each side can give off a different feeling, which makes it more interesting and captivating, allowing the viewer to have more to think about.
I think my piece most relates to Henry Moore’s sculptures because the ideas of them are very similar. The protuberances and indents/pierces have a lot of similarity in both formation and style as they are very defined but flow with the piece.
A bronze sculpture of abstract shape after Henry Moore (BRITISH,
Nomura, Allen. “Looped-Wire Sculpture.” Ruth Asawa, https://ruthasawa.com/art/sculpture/#bwg6/34. Accessed 18 September 2023.
I have chosen this Looped-Wire Sculpture by Ruth Asawa as I find it very interesting because of its textures and uses of space. It connects with my push-pull sculpture as it also uses a lot of captured negative space, adding greater amounts of dimension to it. I used this concept in my piece as I created indents and made piercings in the clay, creating dimension and different uses of space. Something I learned from looking at this piece was how using entrapped negative space can help in forming layers and emphasize textures by making each enclosed negative space smaller, also visually creating more positive space as they layer together.
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