Description: This sculpture represents building from the ground up to reach and create your dreams. If you want to build up you have to begin by building your base/ foundation. In my life right now I'm doing a lot of soul searching and figuring out what it is I want to build of myself and my life.  Its a lot of odd angles and confusing pieces and hard to reach places just like building this sculpture, but in the end it all works out and makes something worth showing others. 

I'm only 5'2" and have just two arms so thankfully after I ran out of class time to work on this I was able to bring my dad in for help along with some ladders to assemble the top parts. The hardest part by far was the top, we ended up using duck-tape to keep it all together and in the right places to drill screws in. Another challenge was getting the staple gun to work, it wasn't having any of it. Eventually we got everything stapled, tied on, and put together last minute. I'll admit I ran out of time with wrapping the joints so that's definitely is one of if not the weakest part of the design. 

I did my measurements right and after Critique my brother and I were able to get it in the back of his truck and take it home. It's too big to be indoors so I'm working on putting a weather proof coat on it and attaching some bird feeders to stick it in the back yard. I'm really happy with this project and how it turned out, I enjoyed seeing it develop and evolve throughout the assignments.

Critique Notes/Insights: Like I said before the string wrapping of the joints was attempted last minute so they're inconstant and sloppy. I believe that was everybody biggest critique on it just the random points of string and then not using enough of it. other than that my peers stated it was very playful, scaling it u worked very well conveying the landscape, it had a great atmosphere to it very inviting. They noted that it was perfectly sized to me that i can stand or sit inside of it and that helped with having it feel so inviting. a couple people have told me that painting it with color could be really cool and help convey the clouds, lightning, and mountains instantly. Other peers said that with the lumber, bolts, and sketch marks it has that construction feel to it I was going for. 

      • Weak execution of the string joints

      • Inviting Atmosphere & sized perfectly to me

      • Has that construction feel to it

      • Painting it with color would be pretty cool

Description: While building this Prototype I quickly realized I wasn't so much of a fan in the Zodiac design. Trying to bring this piece into 3D form I just wasn't feeling it, both in looks and sculpture ability. This Design would have a couple large joint flaws going on to a larger scale and It just wasn't holding the same magic as the rapid prototype. As I was working I decided to change it and bring it back more to the original design. Working with what was there and experimenting I was able to bring in a new creative spark. With that I brought in the mountains which aloud the sculpture to have a skin aspect to it. 

In designing the prototype I explored how to make the joints stronger and reinforced in an artistically pleasing way. Along with that I really like how the skin aspects are as mountains it brings in a sense of order and down to earth the lower half of the sculpture holds. Where as in contrast the stars are still chaotic and bring you in. 

Critique Notes/Insights: One of my peer's project explorations with there prototype was looking into how to hang blocks of wood, someone suggested I look at there's and decide the same for my project and how i'll want to hang my "stars". I think I'll go with wrapping them like I have been I really like the way it looks. Another peer mentioned how they liked the shadows the piece creates and when the final sculpture is created I should have it on top of white paper and close to a wall. 

Discussion Notes/Insights: Right off the bat my peers said it be a cool idea to make miniature sculptures of all the zodiacs. One of them said a couple of the designs would be very interesting to see built but also very challenging to accomplish. After explaining my plan another peer stated that having it be so big would be very cool and give it a whole nother feel to it. One of my friends noted I keep the base the same from my rapid prototype and said it was good and probably be easy to build. 

Description: I wanted to create a piece that represents how i'm currently feeling in my life. "Building to the Stars" represents that feeling of scaffolding up to my dreams through all its uncertainty and my determination. This sculpture from a far is cute and pleasant but once up close and personal with it has a sense of risk and adventure. The size of this prototype express that my dreams are in the palm of my hand and all I need to do is just get to work. 

The most important part of this sculptures design was to curve over and create a sort of canopy that if bigger, one could stand under and gaze up. I also wanted star-like features to hang down so they could feel more down to earth. that way it captures how personal and just out of reach dreams are unless you put in the work. It's the chase of dreams that creates the magic, I love how this turned out. 

Discussion Notes/Insights: Someone mentioned how tiny and cute this sculpture is until you get up close to it and see all its sharp edges and feel that danger its branching structures create. I also noticed how close everyone got to it as soon as I set it down on the alter because of how small it is. 

      • Tiny and cute until up close then turns frightening. 

      • Tiny objects invite people to get up close to them. 

      • I really like how it turned out and enjoyed critique. 

      • Diving deeper and finding different meanings in art even when they were not planed was really enjoyable.