Blaine High School student art

My project is a bunch of different shapes and colored rocks arranged into a spiral on the grass. The connection between the object (rocks) and space (grass) is that they are both part of the environment. The significance to my method of construction is making sure the many rocks are positioned the right way to create the effect in the picture. 

It’s a spider that I made out of random junk in my dad’s garage.  I have a bunch of nails that are welded that are attached to a washer to make the legs and body, then when we were done with the body we hot glued the bulb back in to the holder.

For this project I started off with a paint brush and I knew that I wanted to manipulate the bristles of the brush. With that in mind, I started thinking of something that was opposite of soft bristle brushes. The first thing that came to mind were nails, they were sharp and hard, everything opposite of what a brush is supposed to be, so I rolled with that idea. I collected a bunch of nails and I started laying it at the head of the paint brush where the bristles would be. In the end, I finished with nails that lay on the brush in a way that the regular hairs would lay.

A hammer wrapped in Turkey. The relation between the materials is simple, the word hammer when split in half is Ham and Mer. Ham is meat, but I didn’t have any ham, I had turkey. Turkey is also a meat so I wrapped a hammer in turkey. Don’t eat off of an old hammer. Like a strong swing from a hammer utilizing the power of gravity to help drive a nail, I used gravity to hold the turkey to the hammer.

My sculpture is a wooden box lined with book pages filled with bottles, rocks, shells, paper cranes, candles and coins. I filled the bottles with various natural materials that I found outside. The top of the box is lined with coins, candles and paper cranes. Two paper cranes that are made out of book pages are meant to blend in with the background while the other two stand out. The top part of the box I thought represented some basic systems of our society not only economically but socially. The bottom of the box is supposed to resemble the natural world. I only really put the book pages on the background so that the top part makes sense.  The people that get the most attention are the people at the very top and the people at the very bottom. All the people in the middle that have the most power in numbers but concentrate on their own preservation so much that nothing gets done. The natural world that many think of as chaotic and unorganized is actually very organized and balanced, countering number with size.

My sculpture is a Cartoon world within a box tin. I brought the usual 2D cartoons into the 3D world. I made it a girls room with her sitting on the floor. I thought it would be interesting to bring a 2D scene into a 3D setting. I used paper to make a 3D dresser , but still drew on it to look like a cartoon, adding outlines where they would be if it were 2D. I used a perfume cap and a tiny bag to make a tiny trash can, and used a tag to make a book to lean on the dresser. I put little posters on her wall to make it look lived in. I drew the posters on post-it notes so they would stick to the wall, and still put outlines to make it look like a cartoon. I put paper all along the inside of the tin so it looked like white walls, and drew a door behind the girl. Getting the girl in there was sort of complicated. I drew her on a piece of paper and had to cut her out with an exacto blade. I had to leave a bit of paper under her hand so I could tape it to the floor and she would stay up instead of falling over. I used a fake candle to tape to the ceiling to be the light in the room, which really turns on. I feel the light really adds to the 3D setting since it casts a shadow on the wall behind her.