Sculpture 1

  Project 2 was an interesting learning opportunity for me. My original intent for the piece was to create the illusion of hands (fully rounded and 3D) to pop out of the wood while grabbing figures. I think I was riding on a confidence high from the last project that I thought I could achieve it. Throughout the process of creating this I learned very quickly that I bit off more than I could chew. No matter how much I sanded down the wood it wouldn’t be enough to make a life-like and fleshy hand. By the time I had thrown in the towel, I had realized that the reason I was having trouble was because I was stuck in this liminal space between 2D and 3D. This space between dimensions is hard because this was one the first times I have truly worked in 3D. In order to salvage the monstrosity of a sculpture I tried to add stain onto the hands to add the implied depth but that quickly got out of control. The stain quickly took over the hands and still looked flat. Out of ideas I decided to p...