Project Five: Plastic Inflatable

For this project we had to build a 10' plastic inflatable sculpture with a group. My group was two of my good friends, Jacob and Tanner, and I. This project had to be a memorial. So we built a giant back projected television (you know, a big box TV); to memorialize all the old technology that seemed so fantasical at its debut, but today seem like rubbish antiques.
This television ended up being 10 panels of plastic. It was 10'x10'x8'. We used a different plastic for the screen portion since we actually back projected something from the inside of it. Tanner made the projection since he was in Video Art this semester as well.
And despite not having a fan to test out our design, it turned out well.
Note: It was stupid ridiculous working with my friends. We are all super procrastinators despite efforts to get us all in there during daylight hours. I love them to bits, but as a work team, we suck. Don't do groups with your friends kids, you get distracted way too easily from the task at hand. We did get it done though, and it turned out well.
I don't happen to have a picture of this one, which is why I didn't think I should post this. But what the hey, we did five projects, so here's my fifth post.

Project Four: Multiples

For this project we had to create a 2' x 2' sculpture of something using multiples of an object. I had a lot of old cell phones and some old house phones lying around, so I decided to do that. I also asked my uncle for his old cells since he used to have this business they provided work phones for, that was tremendously helpful. My sisters even pitched in; those lovely ladies. Anyways, I built a phone tower (like a cell tower, it's punny, get it??). I put the oldest ones at the bottom and worked my way up from there. Rotary to Droid; an evolution of phones.

The craftsmanship could have been better I realize, but these phones had to be returned to their owners once I was finished. So I had to resort to electric tape instead of something as hidden as epoxy. For that I apologize. I made due with what I had, and I seriously rebuilt this thing like 3 or 4 times. Took maybe 2 hrs each time. Ridiculous.

Project Three: Clay Metamorphosis

For this project we had to create two 8" sculptures of two different objects and then combine aspects of each of them into one 10" metamorphosis sculpture. I did a moon and a sandcastle. Then created a broken rook with moon craters. The reason why I chose these two because when you build a big sandcastle on a beach, you put so much effort into it, and you're so proud at the end result and by the end of the day the tide has washed it away. What I'm getting at is that the moon controls the tide, so this piece is about how the moon is cause of the sandcastles destruction. Hence the broken rook.

Here they are all fired, I'll upload more pics once they're finished being painted.

Okay here are the finished pieces, all painted! The sancastle has a drawbridge on the front and little windows on all towers. The moon is painted so that if you turn it you can see the phases. The rook starts out as night sky fades to beach. Personally, my favorite is the rook.

Project Two: Wire Sculpture

This post is a little late being posted, but it's finally here. The project was to build something about 18" in one dimension, and to solder. Done.

There's supposed to be a little man in the swing, but he's been living in my room for while now. But here it is- my swingset!

Project One: Cardboard Sculpture

We had to make a sculpture entirely out of cardboard, I chose a Police phone booth from the 1960s. (For those Doctor Who fans out there, yes, I built a TARDIS.)