Sculpture and Combined media

When I started sculpture I was very excited I couldn't wait to see what kinds of work you could actually do as a sculptor. The first day we all took part in doing group mind maps on massive brown sheets on the floor. Our brief was dealing with the senses and body functions such as sight, smell, hearing, taste and temperature, respiration, and pulse.
We each went from sheet to sheet putting down our own ideas about what ever was in the middle of it. After awhile of doing this we each had to pick about twenty words altogether from the collective amount of sheets. Then narrow these down until we had one word.
We were told that if we started with one word that we shouldn't necessarily end with the same word by the end of the two weeks.
I chose the word expand. I thought that this word was really great expressive word. So I started thinking about what I could do with this word. Throughout this two week period I didn't really know what my end result was going to be. But this was freeing in away it allowed me to just keep making things not thinking hard where I'm going and why.

Stretched piece of material

These are the rice pieces altogether with a backdrop of cream
 material just so that they would stand
out better.

This is rice which I coloured with different paints I then added
then to skin coloured tights

My tights weighed down with rice and stretched with very
thin pieces of bamboo

This is a dark coloured tight filled with the coloured
 rice and manipulated using a piece a circular cardboard.



These are some dried beans stuck to a piece of cardboard
I dripped different coloured paints on them.



Skin coloured tights filled with rice and painted to make them look a bit
gross looking.

These are the skin coloured tights I think they
work better then the dark tights
because you cab see the colours more clearly
through them.

This a twisted rice piece that has been weighted down to the ground
and twisted around.

With this one I was trying to make a sort of nest out
of the rice tight. So i lay them down one on top of the
other letting them fall into their own comfortable
positions.

By the end I wanted them to kind of simulate the family unit. But really I liked the idea
of the nest of rice people. the largest one is made up of the dried beans.

So I really enjoyed my two weeks of sculpture and would love to do more in the future.