Sculpture
Sculpture has helped push me past my artistic limitations to pencils and papers. Rather than drawing pretty pictures, I’ve been able to push my fingers into my work, to walk around it, to look into its nooks and crannies. I’ve seen my imagination pushed into three dimensions and escaping from its prison with bars made of paper grain. It has also allowed me to break the stereotype of women not mixing with power tools. I can not knit, I can barely operate an oven, washing machines are a mystery to me, and I’m more in tune with a hair dryer than a car’s exhaust pipe. However, I can operate a chop saw, a drill press, a victor’s torch, and an anvil as well as any 200 pound middle-aged blacksmith. I overcame my fear of burning/chopping off my fingers and have sacrificed my limbs and sensibility to the service of “Art”. What I’m beginning to discover is that with sculpture, I am experimenting with size. My first project was a small book, it was comfortable and easy. When I moved into clay and made 16”x16” relief, I was concerned with how to fill the space and ended up making a mosh because I didn’t know how to deal with blank spaces. Then came wood. My original sketches were of a small wood structure, very geometrical, very proportional… And then I decided to make it a foot larger than what it was going to be.
And now… my final piece made of metal is going to be my special love. I have designed 2 abstract female bodies, lifesized, to be made into a “conversation piece”. The figures will be made of thin metal rod, twisted and contorted to my pleasure. One woman will be reclining on a flat bed (it’s material I have not yet decided) and the other woman will be seated on a high stool (also of my creation) and in one hand will be the simplistic form of a wooden sketchbook and in the other a metal rod forged into the shape of a pen.
Yes, it will take me a long long time to complete and if anyone has any spare time I would really appreciate some assistance in the sculpture studio. Please please please. I’m offering a crash course on how to hold a torch, since I only have two hands and can’t do four things at once when two of them could potentially scar me for life.
So, if I ever leave an away message up saying I’m working in the sculpture studio and you are not terribly busy, please feel free to come by and offer your services, it would be greatly appreciated.
And now… my final piece made of metal is going to be my special love. I have designed 2 abstract female bodies, lifesized, to be made into a “conversation piece”. The figures will be made of thin metal rod, twisted and contorted to my pleasure. One woman will be reclining on a flat bed (it’s material I have not yet decided) and the other woman will be seated on a high stool (also of my creation) and in one hand will be the simplistic form of a wooden sketchbook and in the other a metal rod forged into the shape of a pen.
Yes, it will take me a long long time to complete and if anyone has any spare time I would really appreciate some assistance in the sculpture studio. Please please please. I’m offering a crash course on how to hold a torch, since I only have two hands and can’t do four things at once when two of them could potentially scar me for life.
So, if I ever leave an away message up saying I’m working in the sculpture studio and you are not terribly busy, please feel free to come by and offer your services, it would be greatly appreciated.