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Something Old: Various projects from my college sculpture class

I’m in the sharing mood so here are some photos of old sculpture projects I did back in college. You can tell it was my favorite class.

[Originally posted on October 19, 2011.]

We worked with clay to make conceptual objects that would look interesting on all sides. No tools.

My professor was often worried about my progress because I struggled to interpret my ideas to her. She gave me the most pitying eyes when she saw me randomly hot-glueing sticks together. I honestly didn't know what I was doing when I started.

After a few hours of adding sticks to my module, it started to look better. This form was already good to go but I wanted to make it even bigger.

A really talented classmate told me she was surprised someone as shy as me could create pieces like these.

I Scotch taped a bunch of cardboard triangles together for the project using planes in order to create a sense of movement.

Before a classmate lent me her digital camera, I was using my iPhone camera and it created this incredible lighting. Looks like a watercolor painting, doesn't it?

Just a nice photo combo is all.

It became my biggest, most ambitious project in the class. It was a tumbleweed chaos made with the simplest materials.

These are pieces for the theme of "time" project. I cut and twisted chicken wire together to make blobs which I then Scotch taped and molded white-and-black colored clay all over. I let them dry overnight, then cut through three layers while it was s

We twisted chicken wire into an armature before the plaster was put on.

With plaster on. My professor liked how severe the arch was.

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