1. How did you come to consider the idea or concept of “Metamorphosis” through your work in this project? How does your work physically address that insight?
Metamorphosis, which refers to the change in form from one stage to another in the process of an organism or object, was highly considered throughout my process of creating the plaster sculpture. Going in to the project, I wanted to create a figure that both resembled human anatomy but at the same time could be looked at as something completely different from a human being. I really felt that the legs of a person were a really cool and interesting aspect that I could base my sculpture off of. By creating a "hole" through the four legs of the sculpture, I wanted to create a figure that could be looked at at multiple views and it would still look like the same figure.
2. How did you push yourself to gain a better understanding of the physical properties of the plaster? In what ways to you come to better control the various tools you employed?
When I first started brainstorming for this project, I went very ambitious and wanted to create a figure with twisting, turning legs that went in many different directions. At the time, I hadn't seen the type of plaster and the materials we would be using. Once I got a better feeling of both the physical characteristics of the plaster and the tools I would be using to create my figure, I had a better sense of what was possible in this project.
One thing that Ms. Seal really stressed was being careful when removing big pieces of plaster because of the brittle physical properties of the type of plaster we were using. Keeping this in mind, I made sure to use a technique that slowly but surely removed the negative space of the plaster in a way that limited the amount of mistakes I could make.
3. In what ways did your intentions change over the course of your project? What opportunities or occurrences led to these changes?
Over the course of the project, I slowly got a better and better grasp of how to best portray my figure. Eventually, I realized how cool it would be to have a free space in the middle of the expanding legs. In a way, I wanted this space to be like a window in the real world, past just the image of the figure. I was led to this idea by noticing that without that added feature, my sculpture could look a little bland or boring.
Also, I thought that smoothing out and removing any blemishes from the sculpture was very important to me because of the sleek, elongated feeling of the piece.
4. Given what you know now about the material, how might you have changed your concept or approach to working?
I don't think I would change very much about the approach or process of creating my piece. I think I had a good grasp of the type of plaster we were using and how to best use the tools on this material. One thing I would be more careful of was when I mistakenly took off little chunks of plaster at the top of the legs. Later on during the process, I had to go back and make sure I had these marks smoothed out.
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