Hair Metal

Sorry for the poor photograph. I wish I could see everyone's pieces today, but my daughter is home sick!

When I was designing this piece, I really wanted to emphasize the importance that sites can have on particular pieces. In this case, my piece would absolutely be incomplete without resting on my head, as my hair needs to wrap around and through the wire. Hair Metal also serves as documenting a particular moment in time. Every time I take it out of my hair and re-wrap it, the finished outcome can never be repeated exactly. It also is unique to my head and my hair length at any particular time.

We live in a time where it is extremely easy to change your hair style and color, even on a day to day basis, which not only shapes our wardrobes, but the opinions that people have about us.

Garden of Eden

For my project I was inspired by the Garden of Eden. I made a vine that wraps around someones neck and leg to show how how temptation can get you in a chokehold and not let you go making it hard to resist. The materials I used were wire, beads, spray paint, ribbon, and glue. I used thick wire to make the vines and smaller gauge wire to wrap around it. I attatched beads to the smaller gauge wire and spray painted the entire vine green. To make the flowers i used wire and glued ribbon to the underside. I spray painted three flowers toward the center of the vine to represent the forbidden fruit in the Garden.

Man made flowers

The idea i had behind this project was to make metal flowers. There are 4 flowers and there steams coming out. It attaches to your leg and goes across and around someones whole leg. The found object was vines going around the steams.
In cities they have man made nature, no true nature. My metal flowers show that show how humans have almost controlled nature in the way they want it to be and look. The fake vines show that humans try really hard to cover it up that isnt not man made but it so obvious that it is.
Objects Used
wire metal
fake plant/ leaves

Wire Sculpture Project

Remember we have critique for the wire sculpture project on Tuesday, September 29th. Come ready to wear your piece!

(piece above by Polly Verity)

Cardboard Structures

Here are some hilights from the cardboard structure group projects...

Check out our flickr site for the rest.

The Mask of Possesion

I decided to make a mask. The mask came to me in a dream and I did some changes and there it is. Using wire as an internal skeletal structure and using tissue to make the external structure. Smoothing out the mask and making a strong surface for indurance through anything.

Pharaoh

For the wire project, I had in mind a Pharaoh which is what the Egyptians wore on their head. I will start by measuring my head and making the ring around to measure the size of my head. From there on I will make the outline of the design and hold each vertical piece of wire with a horizontal wire to give it the proper design. I think I will use tissue paper a bright yellow or gold and cover it with blue stripes to give it that Egyptian feel to it. However I might modernize it to show how society can take old fashion and update it. Maybe they will be back in fashion one day again.

Leech

For my wire project I wanted to make a leech-type creature. I plan to have it wearable on the head to act as a parasite for the wearer. I want to add yarn to the leech or use a map to cover the leech. I am just not sure of the size I want the finished product to be.

Red Heel

So, for the wire project I want to make a strappy high heel. I decided to make a heel because for this project it has to be wearable and I love to wear high heels! I want to make the heel and the base more sturdy and the straps to look more gestured. After I complete the heel I want to spray paint it probably red. I hope the final product turns out better then my drawing!

Decorative War Gauntlet

One of my ideas was for this gauntlet. I am thinking of decorating it with copper wire and maybe some tissue paper. The hand will feature actual joints so that it moves with the wearer.

Dragonfly JetPack

My idea for this project is a Dragonfly Jet-pack, I would use wires to replicate the dragonfly wings which will be mounted on to a backpack. As an add on a jet-pack thrusters will be placed in the center. For the dragonfly wings I plan to add some type of paper to give the wings a more realistic feature, I don't know what type of paper to use though.; any ideas?

Hand Extension

This will be something to wear on your arm or wrist that will extend your reach I will use something like rubber bands and/or strings to give control to the wire hand so that it is a functioning piece.

wire feathers

My idea for the wire project is to make wire feathers to be put on a head band. My inspiration for this came from the feather hair bands flapper girls wore. I plan on making the feathers out of thin shiny wire. The other material I will use will be the hair band the feathers will go on.

My idea that came to me when I first heard of the assignment; I want to make a vine that wraps around the body like a sash. With green wire I would make the vines and leaves and I would make wire flowers with various colors of beads. I thought of using pearls as the centers of the flowers. I want to make it very elegant, the way it would look over a beautiful dress. Although it’s not something anyone would wear in real life I could definitely see it on the runway.

Flower Belt

The idea is a flower belt to have flowers are coming of it. On the belt is going to be flower and leaves all over it. It will be like a floral 3d item. I cant draw so its hard to show on a sketch.

The Vest

I was thinking about creating a sort of vest from the wire. With an opening two part front that would have hinges. The other material I was planning on using would be an old shirt cut into strips and then attached some how to different parts of the vest.

Hair Metal

One of my ideas for this project is to use my hair as a second material, weaving it in and out of a series of wire link-type pieces. From there, I have two types of construction in mind: a loose, movable headpiece or a rigid, stationary piece.

Wire Project

So I thought about making a baseball bat for my wire project and possibly attaching it to hands. I am not totally sure about the hands yet but definently a bat. My other substance would be string to be placed around the end of the bat for the grip.

Project #3

I thought about making a tutu out of metal. To me tutu's represent art and performing art. I've always been involved with theses things, whether it was dance, marching band, or jewelry making. I thought I might put little charms though out the tutu like my instrument I play and other things from my experience with art.

Wire Project

For my wire sculpture I want to make "fancy" gloves. I want to make them start near the elbow as lace and end as bear paws for the hands. I'm thinking of using white string on the lace part as well as wire and for the actual paws I am not quite sure what to use to make "fur" but have a few ideas.

Wire project

The two images I posted are of the same idea, but from two different angles. For my project I wanted to have a purse , and coming from the purse are snakes that are latching on to the body. The extra material I would be using is a snake skinned patterned fabric. The fabric would be used for the snakes, and details on the purse.

The sketch on the left uses wire to form two seperate jellyfish that wrap around the figure. I think it would be cool to wrap the jellyfish in tissue paper and set a flashlight in each one.

The sketch on the right uses wire to form a human heart and veins. Somehow I want to use liquid as the second material but I'm not sure how I could incorporate it.

Cookie Cutter Town

My Piece is about how towns are built now a days. The economy was at such a high and they built all these neighborhoods that now after the fall of the economy are now empty. Most of these towns were built so fast that they are really poorly made, like they were built out of paper walls.

20x23
PVA Glue
Construction Paper

Deforrestation

This piece is about how nature is being overrun by urban expansion. I chose to do this because this is my theme in most of my work and I enjoy nature. I thought doing a stop-motion animation film along with the paper sculpture because I thought it would be fun and I enjoy making videos. The materials I used were construction paper, glue, and coat hangers.

Paper Sculpture

For my paper sculpture I chose to try and make a realistic vase with flowers. I love Photography and when I go out and take pictures, I usually choose to photograph flowers of many types. My vase is made out of tin foil then I used paper mache' to coat the foil with white tissue paper then a Japanese print paper for the top cover. The stems are also made out of tin foil then paper mached' with a unique Japanese paper. The flowers are cut out of printmaking paper then I soaked it in water and shaped them into flowers.