Sculpture Assignment V

 Working With Found Objects

            For this assignment I had the initial idea to find pieces of metal to eventually use to make something that is known to be delicate, a flower, butterfly or dragonfly. I found these little copper wire pieces in a parking lot and planned to use them and a chicken wire that was sitting outside someone's house post Hurricane Ian but I wasn't able to get a wire cutting tool in time before Garbage trucks came to pick it up. Therefore, I had to reimagine my plan for this assignment. 

            I found this portion of a vacuum cleaner tube and enjoyed the texture of it as well as it's little bit of flexibility. When thinking about those two items together I struggled to figure out what to do with them so I found those metal pieces at the bottom and thought they would make a good base and they reminded me of legs so I decided I would use the tube to represent the torso and its range of motion (scrunching bending and twisting) and the metal to represent the strength and sturdiness of legs, which solidified my new plan to make a representation of a human. Then I found another long copper wire but it had the rubber coating on it that matched the tube so I twisted it around to make a one-line face/head piece that I attached with a piece of the copper wire to the vacuum tube, making the head as large as the body because our bodies are useless without our brains. I used two longer pieces of copper to make some arms, then planned to use the remaining copper pieces to make hair but the weight would've been too much to hold up so I figured the humanoid deserved a little friend. I bent the wires and intertwined them at the middle and secured them together with hot glue, making a copper pet which sits to the right of the legs. As a whole, The materials mimic the functions of the body in simplistic ways, our legs are strong and hold the weight of our bodies as these metal pieces provide stability, our torsos move twist and bend then always go back to relaxed position similar to the tube, and the wire in the head because that's where all the energy in our bodies get information or directions on what to do by the brain--hence the large size of the face/head. Then to move away from function of the body to a psychological need for companionship--the copper pet showed its importance to me.