Some of you completed the Cabinet last week and are ready for a break. Some of you were in transition and either finished the cabinet project over break or planned to present it in our final week of class. Rather than seeing the last week as empty of content, think about your progress through sculpture, and present a collection of objects representing your strengths and investigations this semester from the installations to the cabinet. These can be new or revised pieces, presented as a collection, either physically or digitally, laying your pieces from the semester with new revisions and explorations side by side (when possible) or building a grid of projects and presenting that way.
Plan B would be to do a hybrid clay project, one that we skipped when you wanted to move from abstraction to representation. Assignment – Complete five sculptures. Two from life (observation), three hybrid. The hybrids will contain elements of each of the observed objects, moving from 1-5 with #3 being an equal blend of the two “real” objects. For the hybrids – observe the apparent elements and principles of your two chosen objects. Exaggerate, Elongate, Repeat, Dissect, Magnify these elements and principles in order to create the hybrid forms. Or think of this as a transformation from one object to another. But then again you may find in this hybridization the work takes you in an unexpected direction. Be sure to photograph the progression as you work, in case you run out of clay.
