Its About Time

Challenge:Carve two forms from life using soap as your medium. Apply concepts of time to one of your carvings.
Work in Progress:

Original

Subtractive- breaking off peices.

Subtractive- using water to mold shapes

Additive- wooden mantel and brown & black ink. Subtractive- melting of soap in microwave and slicing off pieces

Additive- wire and string. Subtractive- shaving down soap into desired shapes

Objective My goal to create two different individual pieces for this project, each one representing different stages of "time". Over the past several years, mankind has viewed animals and creatures with less respect and less caring of their existence, whereas back in timehundreds of years ago, people admired and even respected animals. Some cultures even worshiped them.

My first creation, the mounted elephant head, is to show how we has human beings see animals today. They are a hunting sport, far inferior than ourselves, used for the pure entertainment for ourselves. This is representational through the mounted trophy head and the melted soap that is attached behind it(aiming to show how wasteful it is to hunt and kill solely for sport.)

My second piece is to show back in time, people used every singly piece of an animal, either for admiration or for personal use. I wanted to create a tribal-esk necklace from what appears to be animal bones and carved rounded ivory jewelry. The wire and string are other decorations are simply there for embellishment, as tribal people would have done to their jewelry pieces.

Reading Response: Lick and Lather

My first thought about Janine Antoni was how odd and unusual her design peices were. But shortly after watching her interveiw, she correlates everything that has happened in her life through a representaion of a rope made from everything that she has experienced in her life. Those experiences also lead her to create more pieces that reflect upon her roping masterpeice, such as learning to tight rope (walking on air), the idea of feeding and cleansing herself with herself from bust portrait sculptures out of chocolate and soap. I enjoyed that she looked at the rope she created as her life line and thought it would be adequate to learn how to tight rope. Learning how to tightrope in retrospect caused her to learn how to spin hemp.

These concepts are always with us and they define who we are a human beings. Her representations show her acheivements, stregths and weaknesses.