Title: Fabricated Nature
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Exhibition For this piece I wanted to create something that represented nature. A lot of my work is underneath that category, because I enjoy being outdoors, and I see nature as something beautiful. I made the tree out of wire, to give it the industrialized feel and texture. Throughout the final making of this piece, I wanted to give it the feel of nature as it comes. I didn't want to par too far away from the realism aspect.
Overall, I feel like this project turned out very well. I am very happy with the final outcome, although some things could be improved. |
These photos here are the three ways that I experimented with showing my final representation of my piece. I originally wanted to go with using the pot, but didn't think it looked quite the way I wanted it to.
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Inspiration I chose to use the piece Kangaroo Paw Flower by Elizabeth Berrien as my inspiration, because I really enjoy how her work is revolved around nature. For my project, I knew that I wanted to do something nature based, because nature is something that fascinates me.
I was researching a lot of different artists that worked specifically with wire sculpture, and Berrien's name was one that came up a lot. Because of this, I decide to do some extended research on her and her work, and I enjoyed the things that she put together. When I saw her work for the first time, I was amazed at how neat and organized everything looks, but it also has this sloppy and hesitant feel to it. When I first saw this piece, I wanted to do something with flowers. But then after thinking about my idea, I wanted to take it into a whole new level. I thought about it and I came up with a weeping willow tree. But I wanted to make my own twist onto it and use hot glue to represent the "weeping" leaves. This would give me the organized but a roughed up look, just like Berrien's work does. |
Sketches First Slide: This is the original idea that I had for my piece. I love pandas, so I thought I wanted to do something with one. However, as time went on, I became uninterested in the idea.
Second Slide: I wanted to incorporate nature within my piece, and also wanted to try and connect my life into it as well. However, I completely scratched this idea at the end. Third Slide: This is the last idea that I came up with. I wanted to experiment with new mediums, so I decided to work with hot glue somehow, and this concept came about. Struggles During this project I experienced many challenges. One that I struggled with was being set on an idea, and using it for my final piece. I came up with a few different ideas that were far away from each other, and took a great amount of time to decide on one.
A struggle that occurred during the actual creation of the piece, was getting the hot glue to be manipulated the way that I wanted. While using the hot glue, too much would come out and leave this huge glob of glue. This made it hard to give a neat presentation and the look I wanted. Also, with hot glue being so stringy, it was hard to manipulate the strings I have made, to make sure they don't stick to each other. While applying the hot glue itself, with it being so stringy and messy, it was also hard to cut the glue to the various lengths I wanted. |
Process First Slide: These are the materials that I used to create my project.
Second Slide: This shows how I measured each piece of wire to be exactly the same size (21 inches). Third Slide: This is how I bent the wire to manipulate the tree to be twisted into the final form. Fourth Slide: This shows after I twisted the wire to get the shape that I wanted for each of the branches. (Each wire is a bit different). Fifth Slide: This shows how I put the multiple wires that I had previously shaped together. I used a hair tie to manipulate the form that the wires would come together to make, to give me an idea on how it was going to look. Sixth Slide: I wanted to use floral foam to stick the wire branches into so they would stand up straight on their own. Seventh Slide: This was after I applied the hot glue to certain aspects of the branches. |