Sick-No Hours
This week I wasn’t feeling very well on Monday so I was unable to make it to MCTC. In my studio, this week I worked on My public art piece, I used a CNC to cut two inch sections of a figure out and then I began gluing them together. The figure is made out of pink foam but eventually it will be covered in concrete with two windows through it, one in the head and one in the chest. The figure is in a seated position so that he can sit on a ledge in the MCAD sculpture garden. The hope is that visitors to the garden will look through the windows in his body and see altered views of the garden. He’ll be seated in front of a tree and facing towards another student’s sculpture. The way I’m planning on making the piece will make it surprisingly light, it will weigh less than me, so because of this I’ll have to bolt it down onto a cast piece of concrete. The light weight will help a lot in transporting it into the garden though and will make my install hopefully go really smooth. Other than public art I worked on a piece for Ideation and Process, where I’m 3D printing a small bust where if you push down onto it the face pops out and you can put in a new one. The work is an exploration of my kinetics work and an attempt to get people to interact with art in a fine art setting. The real dilemma is getting people to feel like they can use the piece. I believe that people will be able to put together how it works fairly easily but getting them to actually interact with it is a different obstacle. I hope if just one person goes for it others will see and try it out too.