A Natural History of The Senses Relief Sculpture

 

Wood 2.0

Old butchers block and beeswax and orange extract

6"x 18" x 2"

The sculpture visually communicates the feeling wood gives me while manipulating its shape. The piece shows the movement of where the wood comes from, trees, but also what it was previously used for. The notch at the top right of the sculpture represents the cutting of meat. The overall smoothness of the piece represents the path of nature and how everything that occurs in nature happens for a reason and happens smoothly.

 

Julian Watts

http://www.julianwattsstudio.com/wall-pieces

Fabian Ewert

https://fabianewert.com/en/mixed-gallery/

Gabriel Schama

https://www.gabrielschama.com/

Momento

 

Blood Lost

Wood and red ink

2" x 2" x 2"

This sculpture reflects a time in my childhood home in New Jersey. It is based off a memory of me falling down the stairs where I cracked my head open, lost two teeth and had bruises all over my body. The stairs represent the stairs that I fell down. I used a light wood to represent my childhood, whenever I think back to memories of my childhood I always associate them with light/bright colors. The sharpness of the stair case represents the sharp pains I felt after the accident. The red ink I used is to represent the blood that was left all over the stair case after the fact. 

Louise Bourgeois

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Marco Tirelli

https://socks-studio.com/2014/12/08/i-grew-up-here-but-i-never-felt-entirely-part-of-it-marco-tirellis-tiny-sculptures/

Martin Azua

martinazua.com

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale"

I chose this photo because you are able to perceive the scale of the wall I am climbing by seeing the size of my body. 

"The souvenir speaks to a context of origin through a language of longing, for it is not an object arising out of need or use value."

This photo fits this quote because this leaf bug is an object that does not need me and holds no value in the world we live in, I could not sell a bug and make money from it. 

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."

This photo fits this quote because cigarettes are a way of inhaling tobacco by stuffing a small paper with tobacco in order to smoke it. Once the cigarette is packed it is able to be consumed into the body.

"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and trophy."

This photo fits this quote because this was a zippo lighter from the Korean War given to me by my uncle making it exotic. I see it as a specimen because a specimen has life and its flame is the lighter life. I also claim it as a trophy because it is one of a kind and my uncle traded for it with a Korean soldier.

"The place of origin must remain unavailable for desire to be generated."

This photo fits this quote because this is my grandfathers 1956 corvette, which are no longer available which makes it very desirable to people who collect cars.

Experimental Sculpture Collection

Wood

Walnut, pine, beeswax and orange extract

2" x 6" x 3"

Stacked

Wood, wire, hot glue

2"x 4" x 6"

Float

Wood, wire, transfer paper, and gel medium

6" x 3" x 6"

For the Experimental Sculpture collection I was inspired by organic materials. My intent was to visually communicate a sense of flow. I wanted to focus on using wood because it is an organic material. The piece allowed me to explore cutting wood into non-organic shapes and then making them organic again at the end. I felt that I spent too much time on my first piece not leaving enough Tim for my other two sculptures to be as nice. I want to keep exploring making pieces out of wood because of how successful I was on my first piece.

Amy Joy Watson

amyjoywatson.com

Silvia Heger 

silvia-heger.ed

Terry Kreiter

http://terrykreiter.blogspot.com/2017/11/balsa-wood-and-japanese-tissue-new.html

Visual Symbols

 

Money for Nothing

Clay, paper, and ink

5" x 3" x 8"

The clay sculpture entitled Money for Nothing was inspired by a local issue in New Jersey. The New Jersey government leased billions of dollars worth of land to foreign wind developers killing a record amount of whales and dolphins. I wanted to focus on political intent and how politicians make money by "green washing", which makes the citizen think they are doing something good for the environment, when in reality what they are doing is hurting the environment. I decided to include stacks of money to show what politicians are really after, a politician with money on his mind, and a dead whale with windmills growing out of it, which symbolizes why they are dying. I want to learn more about using art for environmental changes. This piece allowed me to explore using three totally different materials, clay, paper, and ink in one piece. 

Elise Siegel

https://elisesiegel.com/es/rough-edges

Morel Doucet

https://www.moreldoucet.com/the-brown-menagerie

Anastassia Zamaraeva 

https://www.azamaceramics.co.uk/