Sculpture/ Semester 2, woohoo!!

As semester 2 begins, I begin one of my three electives, Sculpture.

I was a little bit apprehensive about starting, but it's going pretty good.

The 'brief', or guidlines for the two week sculpture project is based around the senses
- Investigate your relationship with your five senses or your vital signs temperature, respiration, pulse and blood pressure )-

[Slightly similar to semester 1's brief, both giving the option to develop and keep moving on with what one was doing before hand or move on completely and totally away from ones previous project.]

The class begun by everyone getting involved and working together to brainstorm, to get ideas flowing for one another. I found it really helpful.

The brain storming finished up with us throwing down verbs, 'to -somethings-', on sheets of paper (which were taken from the words of the topics in the brief). Looking at each sheet, we wrote down the verbs that were most appealing. I was left with - 'to rumour' and to connect.....

So, I came up with a few ideas to try out and see what flows. The girls next to me, Emma and Sophie gave me some really interesting ideas too.

• To essemble dominos with sentences on them and have the words changing as the line travels -I've started to make bigger shaped dominos for the changing in the line to enphasise these distortions in the sentence.

• To record the effect ink would have on water when dropped into it. So a sense of spreading may be given.

Originally, I was concentrating on 'to rumour' (this verb came from the brainstorming sheet of Hearing), thinking about how people 'add on legs' to stories. How one thing/being can start out as plain and as it is and end up distorted or warped even!

However, to connect is now the basis for this particular assignment. I was made aware that, there is more of an allowance to do more, not just narrowing it down to rumours/whispers, but realised that 'to rumour' can easily be incorporated into the connection among people.

After discussing all of the above^ with my second tutor, she directed me into exploring the exhaustion that can occur with vigerous use. I think this will be interesting and also quite fun to explore.