Sculpture

So sculpture was an interesting two weeks although i must admit i found it quite difficult and definitely don't think its for me. On the first day we had to think about our five senses. Roughly 8 sheets were put in the centre of the floor and we had to brainstorm. There was a diferent heading on each of the sheets such as "Temperature" "Smell" "Touch" and other words related to the five senses. It was a good exercise as it really got the brain thinking. After this we had to get another sheet and write out activities that related to the words. From this part of the exercise we had to pick out ten activities that really interested us and from that choose our final one which would be our activity for the project. I chose "to burn". At first i started off just burning a number of different materials such a paper, cardboard, fabric. bubblewrap and a load of things.

Here is an example of me burning paper ..












Here are some videos of my burning........

After this I got interested in the way that burning can transform something to be completely different and burnt materials like botttles, dolls and flowers which showed this very well. I particularly like the doll because it completely changed to a nice kids toy to a rotton scary looking doll.

I then decided to burn some CDs.. and made this sculpture. The idea i was goin for was that the got more and more burnt as they went down so you can see the transformation that takes place.