Oneself


Materials &


Process

Metal

Close Ups

Process

Disturbed Family (2021)

Wood

Fails

Tinfoil, Pop tabs,

Copper wire, Magnetic

wire, Acrylic latex

caulking, Acrylic paint,

Fake blood

-Tinfoil base


-Acrylic latex caulking

used as a binding agent


-Pop tabs to conceal

the rough texture

of the tinfoil and the

caulking


-Magnetic wire for

veins


-Painted with acrylic

paint as it works best

with the binding


-Ultra shine gloss spray

as a finish

My original idea was to create a mask out of pop tabs, as well as matching fingerless gloves, I made multiple trial pieces, using the pop tabs to hook onto themselves. I noticed as I added onto the piece and it got larger the tabs would flip and get tangles and I would lose track of where I was, becoming a horrible mess, so I decided to pitch the idea and think about the materials and their meaning more.

I began to think about addiction; alcoholism specifically. I decided to construct an organ, entirely constructed out of pop tabs, painted to look as though it was dead or in really bad condition, photographed on a plain white canvas, in a neat pool of blood, to show it had been recently "harvested from surgery"

I started with the most obvious option; the liver, although as I began construction I was not pleased with how it was coming out, turns out loose metal is really hard to work with. I tried to salvage it by using acrylic latex caulking to bind the piece together, but it still ended up too lumpy for what a liver should look like and I was not satisfied. My second option was a heart, focusing less on the physical effects of alcoholism but more targeted towards the familial effects of it. I was drawn to the heart not only for its obscure form, but also for it being known as a universal symbol for love, and in this case, heartbreak.

Moldmaking

Negative Space Cityscape (2021)

Process

Cork, Apoxie clay,

Acrylic Latex Caulk,

Pop tabs

-created a cork ring the diameter of my water bottle


-used 3 pop tabs to create an "elbow joint" for structural integrity


-used a "Jenga-like" method to construct the piece while the binding agents cured

-Collapsing
-Lack of structural integrity

Issues

Close Ups

Process

Mother's Fever Kiss (2021)

Monster clay

- hand sculpted

separate facial features



-press molded to my

own skin on the

corresponding features


- Molding two

foreheads

and a pair of lips in

Acrylic Caulk

(still curing), will be

molded in liquid

monster clay to see

how much detail the

material can retain