For this school project, I was given the task to build myself into wire. In addition I had to incorporate a “life-changing” moment into a pose. 

For my “life-changing” moment I chose heartbreak. A year before I made this project I went through a very harsh break-up that change everything I was, the relationship lasted over 6 years and we were about to marry. Things didn’t go as I thought and this person left me for someone else within a week we got separated. Six months this person got married.

I felt that this situation was perfect to incorporate into the project because after this experience I felt a huge void in me. I lost my personality, my charisma and vibrancy was gone. All of the sudden I felt as if I was useless, a failure, a mistake, almost like a zombie. The only thing that remained me of being alive was the echo and ache of my heart.

I decided to simplify the head because when you go through this you feel light headed and spaced out. I wanted the limbs to look like coils to mimic the feeling of being useless. All of the joints are interactive so that it captures the essence of being a puppet to someone. 

I also added a heart, and to me it is the most important part of this piece because no matter what situation you go through, you always have to love yourself first.