Inspiration for my sculpture:
Description of concept development and inspiration:
My inspiration for my sculpture comes from the following two images, namely one depicting world hunger and the other depicting food wastage, a common sight at the hawker centers in Singapore. Having witnessed many people leaving their seats with leftover food on the tables over the years, this issue has been troubling me deep down all along. Other than giving constant gentle reminders to family and friends, this provided me with a good opportunity to express my concern and my power as an individual to allow people to be more conscious of their behaviour.
Process and Development of Sculpture:
Initially, I tried using the ice creams sticks I painstakingly cut up to create the bowl I wanted through soaking them in boiling water. However, it did not work out as expected as the wood was too thick. Then, I went to acquire some balsa wood (a more ideal choice) for my project.
I wrapped a bowl with non stick cooking parchment paper before cutting up the balsa wood into small pieces so that I can glue them together against the bowl to form the shape needed.
However, this method did not work out as it was extremely difficult to hold the pieces there without any support other than the glue. It resulted in the picture below as one of the joins broke, causing the piece to fall apart.
The picture below shows my second attempt at making this work. However this still proves to be rather difficult, hence I have decided to change my approach.
Part of the curvature achieved.
This is my third attempt with a different approach. I did the opposite and lined the parchment paper on the inner surface of the bowl instead and started to glue the balsa pieces together. Due to the support given by the bowl, it was much easier this time.
Two layers of the bowl completed.
Balsa bowl taken out from the “mould”, aerial view.
Side view.
Notice the two layers mentioned.
Back view.
I cut up some ice cream sticks into 4 short sections and glued them together to form a square before attaching it to eh base of the bowl to create the mini “stand”. Subsequently, I cut up 4 pieces of (almost) identical strips of balsa wood and attached it, bent, to the ice cream sticks at each junction to create the curvature I wanted.
After I am done with the bowl, I proceeded on to fold my hands using copper wires.
Fast forward the process many times with some variation (some thicker wires, some thinner, some bigger hands, some smaller etc), I get a small pile of hands.
Creating a comfortable layout on the foam which acts as a base, simulating the ground. I have also placed some steel wire mesh in the bowl to simulate food.
After glueing the bowl to the base, I began attaching the hands by stabbing the foam with a sharp knife followed by opening the silt to a suitable size by a tweezer.
Attaching in progress.
Final draft model done.
However, after the review in class, Prof Peter mentioned that the blue foam base for mine was not ideal and suggested that I paint the foam instead. Besides, the hands looks a little too scattered. Probably I can move then closer to each other to have a cluster feel to have a more sense of urgency.
This leads to my next post on my final model.
Inspiration Image References:
http://www.todayonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/photo_gallery_image_lightbox/public/22396714.JPG?itok=Nu6Ox804
https://userscontent2.emaze.com/images/19fb99cb-c03a-4938-bc6e-a4e52279491f/f9dbaf1e10e2b0bb888004cd88d24e65.jpg
