Final Project

My final project was a refinement and a progression from my midterm project. I continued with the ideas of drapery and movement and absence of body. I was excited with the way my ideas developed throughout the semester to culminate in the three different pieces of my final project.

One of the pieces consisted of three individual, free standing sculptures made out of plaster and fabric. I made them by draping fabric soaked in plaster over human bodies until they hardened and then I took the forms off of the people and they left a trace of a body but the body was absent. I connected the three pieces with fishing wire and they were all tied to a weight and elastic. When the weight was moved, the weight and elastic would move all of the different sculptures in different and strange ways. I was inspired by dancing, and I wanted to suggest a sort of dancing movement with stiff objects that suggest an absence of a human body.

The drawing part of my project was made by pouring plaster over color drawings in blob-like shapes that look like footprints or fragments of something that was once whole. This was the only part of my project that I was able to explore my interests in color and fragments. These plaster drawings compliment my third part of my project which was fabric draped over fans. The fan pieces were the most sophisticated and complete part of my project. I used white satin fabric and sewed it so it would cover the fan and collect the wind to create an illusion of a form underneath the fabric. There was one covering a floor fan and one over a taller fan. My final project really brought together and refined all of my interests throughout the semester and I was extremely happy with the way it turned out. I learned a lot about different materials and movement that I will be able to incorporate into my work in the future.