Critique # 6: Materials and Methods - Final Critique

Nature Forms #1

Nature Forms #2

Nature Forms #3

For this last critique I decided to incorporate photography with my last material which was wire. Working with the wire was really time consuming cause no matter how long you spend working on the piece the progression was unnoticed. I combined different materials such as wire, wood, paper (shred paper, photographic paper, watercolor paper) and fabric for this last piece. I decided to include photographic images to the sculpture to combine my major (photography) to something unknown and with zero experience (sculpture) to see the possibilities and opportunities these two mediums can contribute in my art making. Even tho at the beginning I was really frustrated and I was about to give up with the wire as material I feel happy with the final result . 

This semester I used so many tools, techniques and materials that I had no idea how they work but at the end I figure out a way to make something, I feel proud about all the things I learn even though no all the time I had successful outcomes. 

Process: 

The start of the wood piece

Evolution of wire and fabric

Evolution of wire and fabric #1

Evolution of Wire and Fabric #2

Incorporating wire and photographic paper on the image transfer

For Nature Forms #1 I fix the hanging crochet yarn cause it was weak to support the weight.

For Nature Forms #2 I make a one of all the felt/ wax pieces

Critique # 5 : intentional play (wire)

For this critique I was trying to understand wire, I had never used wire before so it was  challenge to know how long will take to do what I had plan in my head. Crotchet wire was really meditative but the progress is really slow, I want to continue with my nature forms to have a consistency between the three materials I been using this semester. 

Also, for this critique I decided to work in a different way to know what method works better for me. Usually I experiment a lot and then decide but with the wire since the time is constrain and is the material that I know the least I decide to give all the time remain until critique #6 to have my piece resolve.

Not all gauges of wire can be crochet, so I decide my piece is going to grow by manipulating different gauges of wire in different ways and increasing the gauge while my piece increase in size.

Other elements that I am planning to add are fabric and maybe wax. I will love to experiment with the roof flashing and the torch and I appreciate the suggestion, I am going to do my research to find out if can help me achieve the desire result.

Process