Mouse

Hand-sanded from a single block of basswood.

For this assignment, each of us had to create two animal sculptures based on an assigned art movement, and mine was Postmodernism. On one side of the Postmodernist movement were artists who strove to make their works appear as manufactured as possible to remove the artist's touch. I also created this sculpture as a play on the word "mouse" and its many definitions, and to reference the postmodernist sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who is known for creating blown-up versions of everyday objects.

Sloth

Basswood

Also based on Postmodernism, I based this sculpture on the other extreme of the Postmodern movement and its emphasis on expressiveness and handmadeness.

 

Lamp

Tracing paper, birch and balsa dowels, string light, MDF base

For our final assignment, we each had to construct a container that captured the essence of an assigned artist. Since I was given Doug and Mike Starn, I looked at how much of their work focused on light as a medium and source of life and organic structures (see Gravity of Light, Structure of Thought, Big Bambu) and combined it in a lamp.