Room With A View
Shoreline
58cm x 20cm
Wood
April 2017
Exhibition Text:
My intention for this piece was to create a sculpture in the style of Richard Serra, who made large wall sculptures that could be interactive. I wanted to create something that would force someone to take a specific path, to reach a certain place, just like Serra and many of his pieces.
58cm x 20cm
Wood
April 2017
Exhibition Text:
My intention for this piece was to create a sculpture in the style of Richard Serra, who made large wall sculptures that could be interactive. I wanted to create something that would force someone to take a specific path, to reach a certain place, just like Serra and many of his pieces.
Artstic Inspiration
Richard Serra is a sculpture who produces large scale pieces of art in urban settings around the world. He believes in centralizing space in different and creative ways. He wants to engage viewers with his sculptures made of sheet metal, by making them move around them. Many of his sculptures are an inconvenience for people, which is something I thought about when I was planning for this piece. I wanted to create an inconvenience because if somethings not an inconvenience, then it's boring, and goes unnoticed. People would just go by it every day and think nothing more of it. By making something an inconvenience, people are forced to notice it. Serra accomplished this with many of his outdoor sculptures that forced people to go out of their way to continue on a certain path.
Planning and Process
Process
I chose set two from my planning pieces. To start this piece, I used wood glue to glue the two cardboard pieces to the black cardboard. While I waited for that to dry, I used the pieces of paper given to us to make the planing sculptures to make the pieces on the wood. I used an exacto knife to cut the pieces out, and to carve out pieces in the cardboard so I could place the walls. For the curved walls I used the exacto knife to carve into the cardboard to make sure that they would stay. But For the straight pieces, I just glue them to the board. |
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Reflection
Overall, this piece was pretty bland. It wasn't my favorite. I think the idea is good, but I wish that we would be given the opportunity to paint it or make it more interesting. I think the planning part was pretty successful, this was the most planning I have ever done for a piece. If I were to do this piece again, I would give myself more space on the cardboard. Not to necessarily make more room for the water, but more room for the walls, I feel like they're really close together. Other than that, I don't think I would do a piece like this again, I'm not really interested in architecture, so this piece was boring to me.
ACT Questions
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect on your artwork.
I can identify the relationship between my inspiration and my piece because Richard Serra made large sculptures that forced people to take a certain path, and my piece has a certain path that you need to take to get to the final destination, which in this piece, would be the lake.
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The author has regarded Serra's work as an interactive experience. It is something that you cant ignore. His pieces force you to go out of your way to get to your destination. You cant ignore them, and that is what makes him successful.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
I've concluded that art doesn't need to be liked in order to be art. A lot of people hated Serra's work, but art is made to evoke an emotion, and hate is an emotion. His work did its job.
What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme around my research was to find an artist who made large sculptures that weren't always kept in a museum. I wanted to find an artist whos pieces were interactive, regardless of whether people liked them or not.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
Through my research I inferred that people like art as long as it is not an inconvenience for them. They like art as long as it is not in a place where they don't feel like it belongs.
I can identify the relationship between my inspiration and my piece because Richard Serra made large sculptures that forced people to take a certain path, and my piece has a certain path that you need to take to get to the final destination, which in this piece, would be the lake.
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The author has regarded Serra's work as an interactive experience. It is something that you cant ignore. His pieces force you to go out of your way to get to your destination. You cant ignore them, and that is what makes him successful.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
I've concluded that art doesn't need to be liked in order to be art. A lot of people hated Serra's work, but art is made to evoke an emotion, and hate is an emotion. His work did its job.
What is the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme around my research was to find an artist who made large sculptures that weren't always kept in a museum. I wanted to find an artist whos pieces were interactive, regardless of whether people liked them or not.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
Through my research I inferred that people like art as long as it is not an inconvenience for them. They like art as long as it is not in a place where they don't feel like it belongs.