Third Studio journal

I said i will move on and leave the golden spiral behind. but i actually did another one! i tried to use chicken wire and wanted warp it with plaster. but because of technical issue and Patrick told me i have to move on and leave the spiral behind, so i stop it here. he said all the stuffs i have done so far is more on two-dimensional. it is less interesting. and he tell me to look up the artist Tony Cragg and Robert Morris.




He told me that to look up Tony Cragg and learn how to make a piece more three-dimensional and the round form of the piece. His works are very interesting that there are movement inside the piece.

 

Robert Morris is the idea that Patrick gave me that my idea has the potential to have the sense of falling. the relationship between the piece and the gravity. 

 i got the idea what patirck said and i think i will make something more 3-dimensional and rounded.

the other thing i did this week is trying to make the spiral out of WOOD!!! but i drop this project after Patrick talked to me. This week is full of failure :(

The welcome back show

We were asked to talk about the pieces at the "welcome back show". when i first go into the gallery, i made a right like i always did, i saw a black standing sculpture in the middle of the room and that catches my eyes. this sculpture is by

Travis Coatney

Glory Days

wood, steel, polyester resin, graphite

14" x 14" x 90"

2011

This is made by Travis, one of the sculpture instructor from LAB. I like his piece because the it give me different feel from different angle. it feels heavier in some angle while it looks like it is falling on the other angle. i really like how he show his piece, too. i love how he made a specific pedestal out of steel and makes the pedestal part of the piece.  

The other piece that i choose which i think is a little bit confuse is by

Dous McLean
Untitled
oil on canvas
8" x 10"
2011
and
Dous McLean
Untitled
oil on canvas
15" x 18"
2011

I love the painting. However, without the title, i feel a little bit lose about what are these all about and are they suppose to put together or they are individual pieces. With the small size of the paintings, i would like to see more of these and see how they work together.