So Far, So Not Good...

So one week down and one to go.  Sculpture, i have decided, is so not for me.  I dont think in 3D, I think purely in flat 2D work so i'm finding this 2 week elective pretty challenging.

I've changed direction yet again and gone with the words "to twist" and "to melt".  These seemed more interesting as i got a creative blockage pretty early on with my original words.  So seeing as I had no clue what I was doing and apparently Sculpture is all about experimenting, I started to twist random materials.  I began by twisting the rubber tubing from bicycle wheels along with paper to make an installation of sorts on my studio wall.

From there I started messing with wire and twisted them into different shapes and then hung them under the installation piece.  no idea what i was doing, i was just trying things out.

I was starting to get stuck and lose interest at this point....which is why i spent many a day in the library.  But i was being productive!  Well kind of.....I did start daydreaming at one stage only to be greeted with a lovely sign which almost worked to get me back concentrating on the job of reading magazines!

And of course when i had loads of work to do, I found other things to do.  Which is when i decided that my plain pink folder looked boring.  So I made it pretty!!!!!!!  Amazing the things you can do when you're bored and start playing with a Sharpie marker!

Then on going home at the weekend, I started to think about the melting side of things.  But instead of just melting stuff straight away, I started to think about how things looked once they were melted.  In other words i skipped a step in the actual melting process and decided to show the end product first.

I thought the best way to show this was by using paints.

So on a freezing cold Saturday morning, I headed out...climbed on to the roof of a shed...taped massive rolls of paper on to the side...and proceeded to randomly drop paint down over the edge.  And what i got on finishing was actually pretty cool.

Sincere thanks to my brother Gary who braved the cold and did the photography for me....as well as making sure that i didnt break my neck climbing on and off the roof!!


So for the final week of this elective, I'm going to incorporate the two words and try and make more experiments before the final assessment on Friday.  To be honest I cant wait for it to be over.  And then Rag Week, yayyy!!