Project 03: Balsa Wood Sculptures

Steve and The Ruins

 

Sculpture dubbed Steve as he started to take a somewhat animal appearance, similar to either a Chinese Dragon or perhaps Pterodactyl. His wife just left him, please send him your condolences.

The third project was where things got fairly more free-form, where we were challenged to create two unique sculptures that captured one of seven principles of art and design.

The first to emerge is a piece I call "The Ruins" which had many small, complicated parts and made use of masking tape, wood glue, and balsa wood. It eventually ended up resembling something chaotic and destructive, as that is how it received its name, and made excellent use of both negative and positive space, which made it interesting in composition and form. It was spray-painted black and white to further bull out these intense spaces.

The second piece started out as a use of balance, as pieces larger than those below it balanced carefully on strange angles to create a somewhat creature-like character. I kind of went with it at that point, and made the creature into something of both balance and the lack of balance. Eventually, he was dubbed Steve and has received an intense backstory as an accountant, pirate and heart surgeon. Overall, however, he was made to symbolize balance.

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