Assignment 3

Items include in this assignment

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4 clay sculptures

2 Plaster sculptures

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Advances on a sculpture from Assignment II

Self – assessment

Response to Tutors’s feedback

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Documentation (Project 4)

Research

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4 clay sculptures

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PLASTER

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Self-assessment

How did I use a range of techniques to create a skilful and effective sculpture?

The technique used with clay was the manipulation of its materiality: it feels very corporeal. Physically speaking clay is quite inviting to the touch, it practically engulfs your hands with itself, it is so immersive, a pleasure to shape it into new forms.

Also, I think I got good results having presented my topic inquiry about darkness and human intelligence. Little details that I really like regarding this idea are, for example, the thumb and pinky foot of plaster Sculpture 1. (See Image 1) Or the finger hands of clay Sculpture 4. (See Image 2)

How did I use construction techniques involving a variety of media and tools?

While working with clay I used mostly my hands to shape my sculptures also other essential tools help me too: a flexible to bend metal ruler, a can of beer, scrap-wood and 3 different-in-width types of wire to cut the clay. Learning about the Slab and Coil methods was also quite useful; it allows me to move forward quickly with excellent results.

Plaster was a different experience. I also used my hands a lot, but It was not as pleasant as working with clay. This plaster stuff burns and it can be quite messy while working so, not ideal for me.

How I developed basic skills in drawing and used those drawing to develop my ideas

I love to draw, and I think somehow this construction sculpture process is helping me to draw better in less time. Or perhaps I’m getting used to draw regularly but either way, I draw better now, so ideas flow smoothly while been developed with colours lines, charcoal, watercolour, etc.

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Respond to Tutors’s feedback

The text in light grey are my tutors comments (Kimberly Foster) and the black text are my answers.

It would be good to see more of your reflection on the research as seen in part 1. You
mention artists with an obvious knowledge of their work but do not always unpack what their practice is or particular aspects that are important and relevant to you.

Even though it is true that I not always unpack what is relevant for me of the work of others artists that I admire I have to say that it is still not clear to me what I am precisely extracting from them. In the case of Hannah Höch on Assignment 2, it was not clear that what I find particularly interesting was the playful feeling of her works. That was not evident until I finished working on my own pieces.

… continue to consider the strength and fragility- the stubborn material and the ephemeral. The found and the made. This will be interesting to consider with clay and plaster

It was quite interesting on the plaster pieces, especially on plaster sculpture #1, to discover on ready-made styrofoam forms embedded onto the original utilitarian shape of the material.