sHoWcAsE

The art showcase was this week. It was actually the first time i had seen my whole concentration together. It was cool seeing the bones I created work together in a cohesive body, creating a full skeleton. My vision actually came together. Now i just need to photograph everything..

All day baby, all day

AAAAAlrighty so my skeleton is almost complete. I next have to make a pelvis out of metal and pray that my skull and jaws do not break/ crack in the kiln! I decided I will be raku-ing my bones instead of pit firing them all due to some very small and delicate pieces that could be broken during a barrel firing. wish me luck!

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So i think with y extra time I am going to make another skull. I think i want to have a few different personalities with the body I am making. The first skull was PETE, the next one im thinking will be named Jose' or Javier or something saucy.

I also have to making a pelvic bone. Like hips and such. I am planning on Using metal to make that as well like I did with the Rib Cage!

sPrInG bRiZzLe

well the Ides of March and spring break are upon us. we still have a regular deadline even though we are deprived of a week in class to work during the break. because of this I gotta do some major work during the break. I decided that starting another skull would be the safest and easiest over the break because i just made one and the design and process is fresh in my mind. I also may make a pelvic hip bone out of metal during the break. i don't know exactly how i will go about doing this yet but its going to be sick

CaRpE DiEm

Alright my peepers of panakova its now time to complete my skull with a jaw. The skull has severe dental problems with only about nine teeth. The jaw will share the same problems but I'm thinking of removing portions of it like it was removed because of an invasive cancer. we put such terrible things into our bodies that do so much damage its amazing. Things like chewing tobacco for example, ruin faces, mouths, and lives. I want to make people feel uncomfortable when they look at this piece of art work because the idea of putting that shit in you body ten times a day should make you uncomfortable too.

STrAight tO tHEe dOmE

So the skull is almost done. now I just need to tie it into my concentration of damaged/diseased/deformed body parts. i was thinking of some sort of skull trauma. You know, like a blow to the cranium is what killed them. I will have to carefully re create an injury of my own. Instead of just firing the skull and literally breaking it, I will have to sculpt a break intentionally.

Broseff man

So! I am almost finished with my two art pieces for this month. I just have a few adjustments to make on my metallic rib cage by just adding one last set of ribs to the botto that will bend upwards towards the sternum like the real thing. Last class I took measurments and was able to study a 3 D human skull model like this one in the picture. I was able to perfect the ratios and angle of the bones of the face. They both are lookin pretty primus.

dude dude DUDE

Ok so the skull is slowly but surely making its way. so far it still looks like a hunk of clay. BUT im just taking my time i guess. Anyways, while I do that IN class OUTside of class I am going to be welding a life sized rib cage to go along with my legs and arms. My younglife leader is actually a pretty sick welder and he is going to help out! jacked. he has made some art of his own and things like a funcitonal metal coffee table for this living room. I am going to use old rusted up metal scraps. Hopefully i will find some old car parts or gears or stuff like that

Roll the bones baby

Yo ok. so I decided that I am going to TRY to scuplt a human skull and jaw bone (mandible) and weld a rib cage out of scrap pieces of metal. Welding i think will save me alot of time and I am excited to learn a new skill. The skull will be no easy task though. I am doing a lot of research right now on the size and shapes of different peoples' skulls. I also am looking up diseases or different kinds of trauma that I could incorporate into the design of the skull.

yay party tommmorrroow

Finally! the semester is over and we have a critique/ food party next class. I am done with two knee joints and a Sarah Davis inspired tube. One leg is based upon Paget's Diseases and is curved inward alot. Like I said in my last post, My other leg is fully healthy except for a metal knee replacement. I do need help with ideas of what to use for the knee replacement. I was thinking o just cutting out a small piece of sheet metal and burning it up a little bit but who knows if that will turn out good. Anyways, yay party tomorrow.

KnEe rEpLaCmEnT

Ok. I would first like to admit that I am infact pretty confused as of the direction of the rest of my concentration. Since one of my femur bones died out before I could finish it, i think i want to try to distract the view away from the shape and size of the knee joint by adding some metal and making a knee replacement. Bad idea? probably. don't judge me. This knee replacement will resemble a real one like this photo but I will most likely be changing it quite a bit into something cooler. Don't as me what yet because i do not know. But i can promise that it will blow your mind.

Sçapŭla+Clāvïcŀe= bro, let us chill

My third project that is due tomorrow is the righ and left collar bones and shoulder blades. I think they turned out pretty well so far (they are still greenware). Luckily though neither of these both play a role in the alteration of other bones inspired by birth defects. Which brings me to my next point: I think I only want to focus on bone birth defects in my skeleton rather than also including just breaks and prosthetics. I think this will be more impactful and more interesting than a skeleton just with like a broken arm and screws in its head.

Sapula+Clavicle= yes

So far, I have sculpted my fingers hands, forearms and upper arms. This all will complete two of my three required works of art to be turned in on DEC> 17th. My third project will be a pair of collar bones and shoulder blades (right and left scapluli and clavici). In order to join ALL of my bones together, I will be poking sets of holes into every bone will the clay is still tangible. I will then join them all with black wire once it is completely done. Tomorrow in class I have to finish poking these holes and i think I am going to intentionallly break one arm (the arm that does not show signs of arthritis in its hand). Overall i am very excited about my work even though some of my next few projects (rib cage, skull, vertebrea..) will be an enormous challenge

arms?

I have finished the hands! now to finish the actual arm bones. last class I finished the LEft and Right Radii and ulnas (The two bones that make up the forearm). Tomoorrow My goal is to make both right and left humerus bones (the upper arm bones). This may take a good amount of clay so I do have to keep that in mind for the future. For my third project due before the break I am going to make both left and right shoulder blades (scapula) and collar bones (clavicle).

<----- So together it will all look like this!

yeeeeeeees

So in order to not just have a boring old skeleton as my final finissssshed portfolio, I going to make each peace unique by either disfiguring it with inspirations from a disease like rhuematoid arthritis or by incorporating injuries such as breaks or by incorporating bone transplants. My first project is on the hands and arms. i want to have at least one broken arm, arthritis in one have and the other hand either have six fingers or broken bones, or like two webbed fingers.

DuDe

Yo so my two projects that I hope to finish by the end of his month arm simply two skeletal human arms. This is definately something to shoot for and, quite possibly, not do-able but Damnit I'm going to try to finish them both in time. Both are made out of ceramic and will be proportional to life size human arms. To make my concentration and pieces more interesting, I will be ' breaking', harming, decaying, etc.. different parts of my limbs to add personality.

cOnCeNtRatIoN

This year I want a concentraion that deals with the human body. whether I am using metal or ceramic or whatever I want to highlight the beauty of the shapes and forms and lines of our own bodies. More specifically, I am interested in the human skeleton. In regards to this, I had an idea: every concentration piece of mine would be a portion of a skeleton. Hopefully i the end I would have and entire human skeleton.

AsSeMbLaGe

So my family piece broke.. although its still usable and i can glue it together after it is all fully fired, I still want to scream my face off for it breaking. I did, however, finish my assemblage project tonight! THIS PICTURE IS NOT MINE but my piece is meant to hang like this one. I think it turned out pretty well actually. I used a combination of dominoes, tea bags, feathers, and a barbie.

MoNsTeR

I just attached the arms to my monster father. they are long, come to a point and drag behind the figure. Once fired, i want to try to give it a shadowy, ghostly look so I will have to think through some ideas with stains. I'm really excited about this piece. I hope this will be my first success in class

fAmILy

This week in class we began working on a ceramic piece based around the theme of family. Some of my class mates are throwing different sized pots to represent a family while others are making slabs. I decided to hand build with my fresh bag of Pendleton Red.. nice. So I'm not sure if this is allowed or even part of the assignment but I am focussing in on a darker side of family: physical abuse. My hope is to capture the essence of an abusive father through the child's eyes. I am making two sculptures. One, a small smooth figure: the innocent child. And the other, a huge, petrifying monster: the unjust parent. I hope to remind people about the dark sides of some families