Giraffe Sculpture

For the final for my sculpture class I made a giraffe out of (grapevine?) branches. It took me a long time to make my sculpture be able to hold its neck up! To work on it more effectively, a man in the sculpture studio helped me suspend it from the ceiling. It certainly made life easier.

I really love giraffes and have always been sadden by why they are killed. The sculpture is fully made of (grapevine) branches and is only held together by a rope called jute. I added leaves for its mane and tail.

It was pretty fun to make this even if it I was struggling to hold it still at times. It can't stand on its own so it is suspended by rope and held down by bricks. My peers that it was better that it cannot stand because it represents how giraffes need help to survive right now.

For the final project I really had no idea what I wanted to make. I like to draw more than make sculptures and have a hard time coming up with ideas for sculptures! So I decided to make something I love--a giraffe. I also wanted to make something that was delicate and pretty.









Here's a close-up of its face.



And its legs.

Sculpture: What is A Woman?

For my readymade sculpture I really wanted to represent the many "hats" most women have to put on in their lifetimes. A woman is expected to be the wife, the mother, the caring nurturing member of the family. Even if she has a job outside the home, she is supposed to be the cook, the cleaner, the stereotypical house wife. But yet she is still expected to be beautiful for her husband and look like all the other jobs she has to balance don't effect her.

In my sculpture I used found objects such as an apron, cooking mitten, a spoon, yarn, and a mop to represent the house wife aspect of a women. While, I did want to imply a sexual expectation a woman is supposed to preform for her husband by the use of having her body be a pillow, I did not mean for that to be the main theme. However, my professor took my sculpture to be commenting fully on sex. Which upset me slightly since he started asking me questions I found to be very personal... I used makeup on the wig foam, not to represent a "hooker" as my professor said, but to show how women try so hard to look beautiful. I wanted to comment on this expectation men and other women put on women; this expectation to be pretty.

Cardboard and Wood Sculpture

This is for my first level sculpture class. Sadly, we don't get to work with clay. It has to be all abstract because USC focuses mostly on abstract art...

I worked hard on these. A lot of frustration and tears went into these.

The first project. Made out of cardboard only.




And the second project made out of wood and yarn.